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The book that changes our view on Leonardo da Vinci paintings
P a s c a lc o t t e
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Unprecedented Discoveries
49 €
P a s c a lc o t t e
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This book on The Lady with an Ermine is the first to examine in depth the painting technique of Leonardo
da Vinci and reveals the secrets of the creation of his paintings. One key to this work is the unprecedented discovery of a true small ermine hidden beneath the visible animal that we see today. We also discover that the first intention of the Master was to paint a classic portrait, without any animal. Probably at the instigation of the Duke of Milan, Leonardo may have altered its composition and later added an ermine then unsatisfied transformed it again. Is it not strange that in 1493 the first poem that describes this portrait does not mention the ermine, as this is an important element. This book provides an answer.
Thanks to a revolutionary new technique, Pascal Cotte is able to analyse layer by layer all the superpositions of the brushstrokes. It is thus possible to reconstruct the whole story, all its genesis. From plank of wood, through all superimposed layers to the final appearance. Everything is analyzed rigorously and methodically. It also enables to reveal important details about the construction of the painting, the wanderings of the painter, his hesitations, his errors and changes. With pedagogy and respect for the reader, Pascal Cotte takes us on a tour quite exciting with simple and clear explanations.
All these findings were previously invisible with traditional equipement of laboratories of museums. The author uses a new scientific method of analysis of pictorial works he invented and named L.A.M. for Layer Amplification Method.
Pascal Cotte is an optical engineer, a photographer and a specialist in signal processing of the image.
He has founded several companies in the fields of electronic, information technology and the manufacture of special scanners. He founded Lumiere Technology in 1989, and in 2005, with Jean Penicaut, he has founded the Multispectral Institute (LTMI) which today is the leader in scientific analysis of paintings. Pascal Cotte is the inventor of the first high definition multispectral camera that digitized Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in October 2004 and The Lady with an Ermine in September 2007 in Krakow, Poland. He has digitized over 2,000 masterpieces in private and public collections. He is the author of several patents, publications on digital processing on images, and scientific studies on famous paintings. His work has led to art historians support and demonstrate the hypothesis that the drawing on parchment La Bella Principessa, is an original work by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci. His exhibition, Secrets of Mona Lisa, promoted by Grande Exhibition, has been seen by over 6 millions visitors worldwide since 2007.
PublicationVinci Éditions SARLRCS 497.692.426.00016 Editor number 978-2-9548258 [email protected]© Vinci Éditions – All rights reserved
ISBN 9782954825809 french ISBN 9782954825816 english
Cover :The Lady with an Ermine, Leonardo da Vinci – Czartoryski Museum, Krakow (Poland)The first version of the ermineOil on panel, 40.5 cm x 55.5 cm © Lumière Technology / Pascal CotteParis octobre 2012
Graphic creation :Vincent Abitane - Studio-Prepresse32 Route de Bondy93600 Aulnay Sous Bois - Francetel : 33 (1) [email protected]
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The L.A.M. image n°6. The Lady with an Ermine , Leonardo da Vinci © Lumière Technology / Pascal Cotte
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25 unpubl ished d i s c o v e r i e s
We believed we knew everything about the painting of leonardo da vinci, and we thought that his paintings were painted all at once, thought and structured, and that could not be changed from the initial project.nevertheless a new technique of scientific analysis questions everything.We were misled, not only on the method but also on the technique.leonard is indecisive, maniac about precision and perfection, he constantly improves his paintings again and again.
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A revolutionAryscientific technique of AnAlysis
the technique which digitize Mona lisa
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c o m m e n t ç a m a r c H e ?
fig.252. Résultats de la prise de vue multispectrale de La Dame à l’Hermine. Les treize images représentent les mesures de la réflexion de la lumière dans les différentes bandes de longueurs d’onde, des ultraviolets aux infrarouges. En complément, en bas à droite, la vision en fausse couleur infrarouge et une reconstruction des couleurs pour un illuminant lumière du jour D65. La Dame à l’Hermine, Léonard de Vinci
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the old techniques of analysis of painting allow to see trough (X ray) and under the layer of the painting (infrared).the new technique that is explained and used in this book allows to study deep inside the layer of the painting and to peal it like a onion. thanks to this technique we can show 25 unpublished discoveries hidden since 500 years.
An educAtionAlbook
Amazing elements of the costumeThe painting’s peregrinations 1498-1946
Leonardo da Vinci – red chalk studies of interlace motifs – Royal Library, Windsor (inv. n° 12351v)
the secrets o f L e o n a r d d a V i n c i
The discovery of Leonardo’s fingerprints
A prest igiousre Ading coMMittee
Martin Kemp :doctor in history of Art - emeritus professor – trinity college,
oxford - expert in leonardo da vinci - globally renowned
author of over 250 publications.
Bruno Cheniquedoctor in history of Art - géricault specialist - resident
student at villa Medici (rome) 1991-92 & at the getty research
institute (los Angeles) - Author of numerous books & articles on
géricault - currently preparing the new catalogue raisonné of
his paintings & unpublished drawings.
Mady Eliasdoctor of physics - researcher at the c.n.r.s. unité Mixte
de recherche 7588 - director of the Art & optics laboratory
at the centre national de recherche scientifique de boucicaut -
professor at the institut des nanosciences, paris (insp),
pierre & Marie curie university (paris vi).
Elisabetta Gnigneraindependent researcher into the history of italian renaissance
costume, specializing in hairstyles and head-dresses
(13th -16th centuries).
Cristina Geddo :doctor in history of Art.
specialist in the followers of leonardo da vinci.
Pascal Labreuche :doctor in history of science & techniques (university of nantes)
- Associate researcher – centre françois- viète - graduate
in painting conservation & restoration (institut national du
patrimoine).
Sidonie Lemeux-Fraitot :phd Art history - pantheon sorbonne university - Master in
Museology - École du louvre - first grade, classics - researcher,
lecturer.
Dr. Frederik Leencurator - head of the department of Modern Art. royal
Museums of fine Arts of belgium.
Dr. Janusz Walek :curator of the foreign paintings department - national Museum
in kraków - the princes czartoryski Museum
David Bullsenior consultant, former chairman of painting conservation,
national gallery of Art, Washington d.c. - fellow of the
international institute for conservation - Author of the
comparison between The Lady with the Ermine and Ginevra de’
Benci in the publication “Two paintings of Leonardo”, Artibus et
historiae. no 25, 1992 pp 76-82.
A neW vieW ofA rt o f h i s t o ry
The stages of the construction
P a s c a lc o t t e
ltMIcollectIon
Unprecedented Discoveries
49 €
P a s c a lc o t t e
ltMIcollectIon
This book on The Lady with an Ermine is the first to examine in depth the painting technique of Leonardo
da Vinci and reveals the secrets of the creation of his paintings. One key to this work is the unprecedented discovery of a true small ermine hidden beneath the visible animal that we see today. We also discover that the first intention of the Master was to paint a classic portrait, without any animal. Probably at the instigation of the Duke of Milan, Leonardo may have altered its composition and later added an ermine then unsatisfied transformed it again. Is it not strange that in 1493 the first poem that describes this portrait does not mention the ermine, as this is an important element. This book provides an answer.
Thanks to a revolutionary new technique, Pascal Cotte is able to analyse layer by layer all the superpositions of the brushstrokes. It is thus possible to reconstruct the whole story, all its genesis. From plank of wood, through all superimposed layers to the final appearance. Everything is analyzed rigorously and methodically. It also enables to reveal important details about the construction of the painting, the wanderings of the painter, his hesitations, his errors and changes. With pedagogy and respect for the reader, Pascal Cotte takes us on a tour quite exciting with simple and clear explanations.
All these findings were previously invisible with traditional equipement of laboratories of museums. The author uses a new scientific method of analysis of pictorial works he invented and named L.A.M. for Layer Amplification Method.
Pascal Cotte is an optical engineer, a photographer and a specialist in signal processing of the image.
He has founded several companies in the fields of electronic, information technology and the manufacture of special scanners. He founded Lumiere Technology in 1989, and in 2005, with Jean Penicaut, he has founded the Multispectral Institute (LTMI) which today is the leader in scientific analysis of paintings. Pascal Cotte is the inventor of the first high definition multispectral camera that digitized Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in October 2004 and The Lady with an Ermine in September 2007 in Krakow, Poland. He has digitized over 2,000 masterpieces in private and public collections. He is the author of several patents, publications on digital processing on images, and scientific studies on famous paintings. His work has led to art historians support and demonstrate the hypothesis that the drawing on parchment La Bella Principessa, is an original work by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci. His exhibition, Secrets of Mona Lisa, promoted by Grande Exhibition, has been seen by over 6 millions visitors worldwide since 2007.
PublicationVinci Éditions SARLRCS 497.692.426.00016 Editor number 978-2-9548258 [email protected]© Vinci Éditions – All rights reserved
ISBN 9782954825809 french ISBN 9782954825816 english
Cover :The Lady with an Ermine, Leonardo da Vinci – Czartoryski Museum, Krakow (Poland)The first version of the ermineOil on panel, 40.5 cm x 55.5 cm © Lumière Technology / Pascal CotteParis octobre 2012
Graphic creation :Vincent Abitane - Studio-Prepresse32 Route de Bondy93600 Aulnay Sous Bois - Francetel : 33 (1) [email protected]
tHe laDY WItH an eRMIneby Leonardo da Vinci
lUMIÈRe on
tH
e la
DY
WIt
H a
n e
RM
Ine
by L
eona
rdo
da V
inci
lUM
IÈR
e o
n
288 pages
284 illustrations
I s B n 9 7 8 2 9 5 4 8 2 5 8 1 6
The L.A.M. image n°6. The Lady with an Ermine , Leonardo da Vinci © Lumière Technology / Pascal Cotte
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LTMI COLLECTION & PASCAL COTTE
luMière onthe l Ady With An erMine
by Leonard da Vinci
Unprecedented Discoveries
Pascal COTTESeptember 2014
The bookThis book on The Lady with an Ermine is the first to examine in depth the painting technique of Leonardo da Vinci and reveals the secrets of the creation of his paintings. One key to this work is the unprecedented discovery of a true small ermine hidden beneath the visible animal that we see today. We also discover that the first intention of the Master was to paint a classic portrait, without any animal. Probably at the instigation of the Duke of Milan, Leonardo may have altered its composition and later added an ermine then unsatisfied transformed it again. Is it not strange that in 1493 the first poem that describes this portrait does not mention the ermine, as this is an important element. This book provides an answer. Thanks to a revolutionary new technique, Pascal Cotte is able to analyse layer by layer all the superpositions of the brushstrokes. It is thus possible to reconstruct the whole story, all its genesis. From plank of wood, through all superimposed layers to the final appearance. Everything is analyzed rigorously and methodically. It also enables to reveal important details about the construction of the painting, the wanderings of the painter, his hesitations, his errors and changes. With pedagogy and respect for the reader, Pascal Cotte takes us on a tour quite exciting with simple and clear explanations. All these findings were previously invisible with traditional equipement of laboratories of museums. The author uses a new scientific method of analysis of pictorial works he invented and named L.A.M. for Layer Amplification Method.
The authorPascal Cotte is an optical engineer, a photographer and a specialist in signal processing of the image. He has founded several companies in the fields of electronic, information technology and the manufacture of special scanners. He founded Lumiere Technology in 1989, and in 2005, with Jean Penicaut, he has founded the Multispectral Institute (LTMI) which today is the leader in scientific analysis of paintings. Pascal Cotte is the inventor of the first high definition multispectral camera that digitized Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in October 2004 and The Lady with an Ermine in September 2007 in Krakow, Poland. He has digitized over 2,000 masterpieces in private and public collections. He is the author of several patents, publications on digital processing on images, and scientific studies on famous paintings. His work has led to art historians support and demonstrate the hypothesis that the drawing on parchment La Bella Principessa, is an original work by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci. His exhibition, Secrets of Mona Lisa, promoted by Grande Exhibition, has been seen by over 6 millions visitors worldwide since 2007.
InformationsSection : Fine ArtText : Pascal CotteDate of first sale : 09/2014Collection : LTMISize closed : 237,5 x 305 mmNumber of page : 280Illustration : 288
Cover : Hardcover with jacketretail Price : 49 € Distribution : Diffusion : French version ISBN ean13 : 9782954825809English version ISBN ean13 : 9782954825816
