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Tiny Beginnings
Photograph by Dave Yoder
Restorers from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, Italy prepare parts of the Giorgio Vasari mural for exploratory drilling while researchers from the University of California, San Diego prepare an endoscope to look behind the wall. The Lost da Vinci team used portions of the Vasari mural already slated for restoration in order to assure there is no damage to the original Vasari pigments. The team is dedicated to preserving the Vasari as well as searching for the lost Leonardo.
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Preparing the Fresco
Photograph by Dave Yoder
An old gap in the Vasari fresco is prepared for the scientists to begin their search for the Leonardo painting, which has been missing for almost 500 years.
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The First Hole
Photograph by Dave Yoder
Fresco restorers Alberto Felici and Fabrizio Bandini prepare the first hole for drilling. Restorers and scientists worked carefully together to protect the Vasari mural.
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Endoscope
Photograph by Dave Yoder
The endoscope and sampling tool are used to investigate the air gap behind the Vasari mural.
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Drilling Begins
Photograph by Dave Yoder
An art restorer carefully drills a small hole through an old gap in the Vasari fresco to avoid creating any new damage.
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Material Analysis
Photograph by Dave Yoder
A carefully placed sampling tool will extract materials for analysis.
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A Steady Hand
Photograph by Dave Yoder
Dr. Maurizio Seracini threads an endoscope into the 500-year-old wall to look for the lost Leonardo painting.
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Reality Television
Photograph by Dave Yoder
A member of the University of California, San Diego, team anxiously watches the footage from behind the wall.
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Sleepless Nights
Photograph by Dave Yoder
Maurizio Seracini rests for a moment during one of the nights of searching for the lost Leonardo.
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Looking for Clues
Photograph by Dave Yoder
The team follows the endoscopic footage closely for any signs of the long-lost masterpiece.
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Hall of 500 in 3-D
Photograph by Dave Yoder
A graduate student works in the StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego, on a 3-D computer construction of the Hall of 500 in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens surrounding the viewer, as well as onto the floor.
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Modern Day Leonardo
Photograph by Dave Yoder
Copies of "The Battle of Anghiari" are studied on the HIPerSpace (Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Space) wall at the University of California, San Diego. The world's highest resolution display, the wall displays systems that can scale into the billions of pixels, providing unprecedented high-capacity visualization capabilities to researchers.
Protecting the Vasari
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Behind the Vasari
Restorers find existing gaps in the Vasari mural that can be used to search for "The Battle of Anghiari."
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Behind the Science
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Visualizing Data
The team gathers visible, LIDAR, and radar data and now must place them in a virtual environment.
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Extraction Operation
Incision instruments, sampling tools, and methods for the sample extraction were designed for this project.
Il Leonardo Perduto
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Dietro il Vasari a Firenze
Tra scienza e alta tecnologia, le immagini che raccontano momento per momento la ricerca de la Battaglia di Anghiari.
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Detective dell'arte
Breve intervista a Dave Yoder, autore delle immagini
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"La Battaglia di Anghiari"
Il capolavoro di Leonardo è nascosto dietro l'affresco del Vasari nel Salone dei Cinquecento a Firenze?
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Cronaca di un capolavoro annunciato
Dietro le quinte della trentennale ricerca della "Battaglia di Anghiari"
