A scratch is seen on a previously unknown portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, displayed during a meeting with the press, in Rome, April 2, 2009. The painting displayed at a news conference in Rome was discovered in December in the collection of a family from Italy's southern Basilicata region. Who made the painting and when it was done is still being investigated, but experts have ruled out it being a self-portrait.The historian says carbon-14 analysis of the wood supporting the canvas dates the material to the late 15th or early 16th century, when Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519) was alive. However, experts caution that doesn't necessarily mean the portrait was painted at that time. They are conducting more tests.
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