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Bianca Sforza attracted few stares when introduced to the art world on January 30, 1998. She was just a pretty face in a frame t
Bianca Sforza attracted few stares when introduced to the art world on January 30, 1998. She was just a pretty face in a frame t
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Bianca Sforza attracted few stares when introduced to the art world on January 30, 1998. She was just a pretty face in a frame to the crowd at a Christie’s auction in New York City. Nobody knew her name at the time, or the name of the artist who had made the portrait. The catalog listed the work—a colored chalk-and-ink drawing on vellum—as early 19th century and German, with borrowed Renaissance styling. A New York dealer, Kate Ganz, purchased the picture for $21, 850.
The price hadn’t budged almost ten years later when a Canadian collector, Peter Silverman, saw Bianca’s profile in Ganz’s gallery and promptly bought it. The drawing might actually date from the Renaissance, he thought. Ganz herself had mentioned Leonardo da Vinci, that magical name, as an influence on the artist. Silverman came to wonder, " What if this is the work of the great Leonardo himself?"
That someone could walk into a gallery and buy a drawing that turns out to be a previously unknown Leonardo masterpiece, worth perhaps $100 million, seems pure urban myth. Discovery of a Leonardo is truly rare. At the time of Silverman’s purchase, it had been more than 75 years since the last authentication of one of the master’s paintings. There was no record that the creator of the "Mona Lisa" ever made a major work on vellum, no known copies, no preparatory drawings. If this image was an authentic Leonardo, where had it been hiding for 500 years?
Silverman emailed a digital image of Bianca to Martin Kemp. Emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University and a renowned Leonardo scholar, Kemp regularly receives images, sometimes two a week, from people he calls "Leonardo loonies" convinced they had discovered a New York. "My reflex is to say, No!" Kemp told me. But the "uncanny vitality" in the young woman’s face made him want a closer look. He flew to Zurich, where Silverman kept the drawing in a vault. " When I saw it," Kemp said, " I experienced a kind of frisson, a feeling that this is not normal. "
That initial shiver of excitement compelled Kemp to embark on his own investigation. He was aided by high-resolution multispectral scans by Pascal Cotte of Lumiere Technology in Paris, allowing Kemp to study the drawing’s layers, from first strokes to later restorations. The more Kemp looked with his connoisseur’s eye, the more he saw what he considered evidence of Leonardo’s hand—how the hair bunched beneath the strings holding it in place, the beautiful modulation of colors, the precise lines. The expression conveyed Leonardo’s maxim that a portrait should reveal "motion of the mind. "
Kemp also needed proof that the portrait had been made during Leonardo’s lifetime(1452—1519)and that its historical particulars fit the artist’s biography. The vellum, probably calfskin, had been carbon-dated, its origin placed somewhere between 1440 and 1650. Costume research revealed that the sitter belonged specifically to the Milanese court of the 1490s, with its fashion for elaborately bound hair. Leonardo lived in Milan during this time, accepting commissions for court portraits.
Kemp’s detective work led him to a name, Bianca Sforza. An illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, she was married in 1496 to Galeazzo Sanseverino, commander of the Milanese troops and a patron of Leonardo’s. Bianca was 13 or 14 at the time of the portrait. Tragically, she died a few months later, likely from an ectopic pregnancy. Kemp named the drawing "La Bella Principessa" the beautiful princess.
In 2010 Kemp and Cotte published their findings in a book. Several prominent Leonardo scholars agreed, others were skeptical. Carmen Bambach was quoted as saying that the portrait simply "does not look like a Leonardo. " Doubt seemed to collect around the portrait’s sudden, almost miraculous appearance. Where had it come from?
Kemp didn’t know. Then, almost like divine intervention, a message came from D. R. Edward Wright, emeritus professor of art history at the University of South Florida. Having followed the very public dispute, Wright suggested to Kemp, whom he had never met, that his answer might lie in the National Library of Poland in Warsaw, inside a book called the Sforziad.
Funded by a National Geographic Society grant, Kemp and Cotte traveled to Warsaw. Cotte’s macrophotography revealed that a folio had been removed from the exact place in the Sforziad where a portrait would have been added. The moment arrived when they inserted a copy of Bianca’s portrait into the open book. It fit perfectly. For Kemp, this was the clincher: " ’ La Bella Principessa’ was a one-off portrait by Leonardo that had gone into a book and then onto a shelf. "
"They had discovered a New York" in Paragraph Four is an example of______.
选项
A、exaggeration
B、analogy
C、understatement
D、euphemism
答案
A
解析
语义修辞题。由题干定位至第四段第二句。由此句可知,那些声称找到了达-芬奇作品的人认为他们的发现像是发现了一座纽约城那样令人震惊,因此是夸张的手法,故选[A]。类比是指根据两种事物在某些特征上的相似性而得出它们在其他特征上也可能相似的结论,此句显然不是类比,故排除[B];这句话是在极力说明其影响巨大,与低调陈述正好相反,故排除[C];这句话也不是委婉语,故排除[D]。
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