'Lost Da Vinci' prompts art row

[ BBC Entertainment & Arts ] 6 Dec

Art experts have signed a petition to stop drilling into a fresco in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio which may be hiding a Leonardo Da Vinci work.

Around 150 historians from around the world have joined forces claiming it is damaging the existing work, Giorgio Vasari's The Battle of Marciano.

Researcher Maurizio Seracini believes Da Vinci's unfinished The Battle of Anghiari lies beneath on a second wall.

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Da Vinci 'zoo' code cracked: Amateur artist discovers hidden animals on Mona Lisa

[ Mail Online ] 6 Dec

An artist claims to have cracked a 500-year-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa - by spotting a series of zoo animals hidden in the painting.

An amateur artist finds heads of a lion, an ape and a buffalo on Mona Lisa

Ron Piccirillo believes it is possible to see the heads of a lion, an ape and a buffalo floating in the air around the subject's head along with a crocodile or snake coming out of the left hand side of her body.

Is it coincidence or deliberate attempt by Da Vinci to do so? Reed full story for details / photos Here.
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