Rome - Experts have unveiled a previously unknown portrait of Leonardo da Vinci showing the artist and inventor as a middle-aged man with piercing eyes and long, flowing hair.
The painting, displayed in Rome yesterday was discovered in December in a collection of a family from Italy's southern Basilicata region. Experts have ruled out it being a self-portrait.
Medieval historian Nicola Barbatelli, who found the painting, said carbon-14 analysis of the wood supporting the canvas dated the material in the late 15th or 16th century, when Leonardo (1452-1519) was alive.
Associated Press