Leonardo expert: the odds of the angel head being his are less than zero

As we anticipated in an article we published on Friday, there is no serious evidence to suggest that the majolica with an angel’s head can even be remotely associated with the hand of Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, a teacher, Professor Ernesto Solari, has attributed to the Renaissance genius a majolica that, as we wrote on Friday, seems to be more of a late 19th or early 20th century neo-Renaissance work than a 15th century painting, and even if it were, it would still be far removed from Leonardo’s sensibility.

Regarding the alleged discovery (Solari argues that it would be Leonardo’s earliest work: in fact, one would like to date it to 1471), it is necessary to record the first stances taken by the scientific community. In particular, the Guardian reached out to art historian Martin Kemp, an expert on Leonardo da Vinci, who has published numerous scientific contributions on the Tuscan artist. “The chances of the work being by Leonardo,” Kemp argues, are “less than zero.” He adds, "for Leonardo, the silly season never ends“ (a term used in British journalism to refer to the summer season, during which, in the British tabloids, attention to frivolous and irrelevant news increases). The compelling detail for Professor Kemp, who has also taught at Oxford University, is the hair, billed as ”vermicelli-like."

Leonardo expert: the odds of the angel head being his are less than zero

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