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And if I'm right and this is a volume of poetry
如果我沒猜錯,真的有這么一本詩冊
and of course it would make a lovely front piece
那當然這幅畫會是一個精美的封面
or somewhere in the volume accompanying these poems
或者會和詩歌一起夾在詩冊中間
evoking the young woman's beauty and her innocence etc.
讓人想起這個年輕女人的美貌和純真等等
These would be presented to the young woman in question,
這本詩冊會被獻給這個公主
they would probably then go on a shelf.
然后很可能就被擱在書架上
You look at them and they'd be delightful
看著它會覺得很悅目
but they'd be part of a suite of aristocratic things
但它只是這些上流貴族的擺設品之一
and unlike jewellery you couldn't wear them
它不像珠寶,你戴不了它
so they were probably relatively useless in that sense
所以從這個意義上講,它沒什么用處
and they lived for the moment of presentation.
它們存在的意義就在于被獻上的那一刻
It would be wondrous,it might be looked at.
它可能很驚人,可能會有人看它
But one reason you wouldn't know about this portrait
但我們不知道達芬奇畫過這一幅畫的原因是
is to have a Leonardo portrait sitting in a library
把一幅達芬奇的畫放在書房里
in a book of not very brilliant poetry is that it just gets lost.
放在一本平庸的詩冊里,它肯定會丟失
So we can get that hypothetical function for it.
所以這是我們對這幅畫的功能的假設
What would be really nice
當然如果能找到那本
of course would be to discover the book that it's cut out of
它被割下來的詩冊,那就最好不過了
but the chances are it was cut out of the book
但很可能割下這幅畫的人
by somebody who wanted the portrait but didn't want the book
只想要這幅畫,不想要那本書
so we can imagine the book of poems
所以我們可以想象,那本詩冊
was probably ditched at that point.
很可能已經被丟棄了
Interviewer: So Martin you were saying at the beginning
馬丁,你一開始的時候說
that you had a sense of immediate recognition
你感覺到一眼就認出
that made this painting different from all the other things
這幅畫不同于以前你見過的那些假畫
that you had seen and the different attributions
不同于別人拿給你看的那些
that have been presented to you.
冒充是達芬奇的畫
After you've looked at it more closely
在你仔細地看了這幅畫
and gone through different methods of analysis
用了不同的方法分析以后
how do you feel about the picture now?
現在你對這幅畫有什么感覺?
Well you go through
你經過
all this process of looking for negatives
這么多程序,尋找反面證據
which you have to keep doing.
你必須一直這么找
But at a certain point it all adds up and the delights that I had
但就在某個時候,一切都證據都成立了,我第一次
when I first saw it was being reinforced enormously
見到它的快樂極大的加強了
and I'm absolutely convinced I think that it's rock solid.
我絕對相信,我覺得它毫無疑問就是了
But above all it is thrilling to look at.
但最主要的是,看著它實在太激動了
It's being restored as an old object.
它是古董了,現在要對它進行修復
We're not going to look very good after 500 years
經過500的時間,誰也不會好看
but it is just thrilling still.
但它仍然能讓人激動不已
It has an enormous freshness,a delicacy.
它有著強烈的新鮮感,精美感
When you look at it in itself there's extraordinary presence.
當你看著它時,就會覺得有個活人站在你面前
I've seen the Mona Lisa out of it's frame,
我見過從畫框上拿出來的蒙娜麗莎
I've seen all The Louvre pictures out of their frames.
我見過盧浮宮里所有的畫從畫框上拿出來的樣子
I've seen the Cecelia Gallirani out of it's frame.
我見過從畫框上拿出來的Cecelia Gallirani
And all of them have,not mystically inclined,
它們都有...不是我故弄玄虛
but all of them have an inner life.
但它們都有一種內在的生命力
The sitter's seem to live.
畫中人似乎是活著的
And very few artists can do that. Rembrandt can do it.
很少畫家能做到這點,倫伯朗能做到
Benini can do it in sculpture but the numbers
貝尼尼的雕刻能做到,但不是很多人
who get that uncanny sense of a presence imbedded in the picture,
能夠在畫上表現出這種活生生的感覺
a living presence.
就像一個活生生的人在眼前
This very much has that.
這幅畫也有這種感覺
It has the delicacy it has the vibrancy
它精美,有活力
which I think will give generations of viewers enormous pleasure.
我想它會給后代的觀畫人帶來巨大的樂趣
