FAMOUS PAINTING.
PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY. L. and N.Z. ' PARIS, Dec. 31 The Louvre authorities submitted Leonl ardo do Vinci's Mona Lisa to X-ray and r Ultra-violet tests and announac these conI elusively provfi the painted pigments are of tho year 3.5(10, which is about the right i date. The authorities also state there 1 have been no alterations auc;i the picture was first painted. i M. Verne, director of the Louvre, also submitted all the 9000 picture of the col--1 lection to X iay and violet,ray j graphing. Although he refuges to j»no > "» ™ sn,ts : tha f," £ S" i. r is authentic m spite of ~, i. i August, 1911, however, is too *e«a
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19834, 3 January 1928, Page 9
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