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And I'm more and more inclined to think the portrait
我越來越傾向于認為這幅肖像
is for a volume of posthumous poems.
是收錄在她死后的一本詩冊里的
It was only four months anyway
她結婚只有四個月
and the poems may have been ready for her marriage.
這些詩可能是為她的婚禮而寫的
But it would explain that she is a Milanese princess,
這也解釋了為什么她是一個米蘭公主
but it's not celebratory it's not over the top.
而這幅畫的氣氛卻不是喜慶的,不是高調的
The costume is relatively subdued and there are no pearls.
她的服裝比較壓抑,沒有珍珠
Often they have pearls hanging from their knotted hair.
通常她們結起來的頭發都會吊著珍珠
Dripping in pearls as it were.
有珍珠從頭發上垂下來
And she's not so I suspect,I can't prove it's Bianca
但她不是這樣,我懷疑她不是Bianca，但我證明不了
but you can take out the other Milanese leading women one by one
但你可以逐個排除其他米蘭地位最高的貴族女人
because we know what they look like.
因為我們都知道她們長什么樣
It becomes a nice romantic story as well.
這也是一個挺浪漫的故事
Romeo and Juliet stuff,the young and violins are playing.
像羅密歐和朱麗葉那樣,年輕戀人,飄蕩著小提琴聲
I don't want to be too romantic about it,
我不想把它想得過于浪漫
but it adds a poignancy.
但它增添了一點讓人心酸的感覺
I think there's a very good possibility that it is Bianca.
我覺得很有可能是Bianca
Interviewer: Leading on from the idea of a portrait potentially
設想這個畫可能
not being drawn from life,but after her death,
不是生前畫的,而是死后畫的
do the pentimenti support that or are
修改筆畫的再現能證明這點嗎
they characteristic of Leonardo's method of working in general?
還是這些是達芬奇一般的畫法特點?
What we found is,
我們發現
the scientific examination was already underway
當這幅出現在我面前時
by the time the portrait crossed my path.
他們已經在做科學檢驗了
Pascal Cotte in Paris
巴黎的Pascal Cotte
who runs a company called Lumiere Technology,
他經營一間叫光明技術的公司
has got an amazing method of photographing a picture
這間公司有一項高超的拍畫技術
called multispectral scanning.
叫多譜掃描
And this consists of taking 11 photographs
這張照片由11張用不同的光譜波段
across different spectral bands which means you can do that
拍出來的照片組成的,這意味著
with a definition that is way beyond ordinary photography.
你可以拍出普通拍照技術拍不出來的高分辨率
It includes ultraviolet
它包括非可見光譜
at the far end of the non visible spectrum
一端是紫外線
and three infrared bands at the other end.
另一端是三個紅外線波段
So you get this extraordinary visual survey of the picture
所以用多譜掃描你能得出這張
with this multispectral scanning.
非常清晰的掃描圖
Which produces both enormously high resolution
多譜掃描能產生非常高的分辨率
which allows us to see a lot of details.
這能讓我們看到非常多細節
The infrared goes through image
紅外線穿透過圖畫
and you can see things under the surface which we come back to.
你可以看到表面下的東西,我們等一下會看到
And the Ultraviolet tends to show
紫外線會拍到
and pick up things added later.
后來加上去的東西
But just looking and zooming in on the compounded image
看著和放大這張合成照片
you can begin to see pentimenti changes of mind.
你可以看到筆畫隨著他的想法而改變
Not big ones but enough to show that the artist is manoeuvring.
不是很大的改動,但足以看出畫家的操作
