 As if he hadn’t messed with our heads enough in Dan Brown’s
bestseller The Da Vinci Code, Leonardo is once more teasing us with
the possible discovery of his long lost masterpiece “Battle
of Anghiari.” UCSD alumnus, Maurizio Seracini, ’73, is
the scientific gumshoe hot on the trail of the fresco, unseen since
1563. Seracini believes he may have found the lost da Vinci hidden
behind a fresco by another sixteenth century artist, Giorgio Vasari,
in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. Seracini’s Florence-based
company Editech used infrared, thermographic, ultraviolet and other
kinds of scanners to probe the walls.
Seracini founded Florence-based Editech in 1977 and estimates that
he’s worked on some 2,000 paintings, including 31 works by
Raphael and three others by da Vinci. He is also, in an odd twist,
the only non-fictional modern character to be found in Brown’s
Code.
Will Seracini find the lost da Vinci? Watch this space, or any
television set in the world, if he does. 
Contributors to Making Waves: Malinda Danziger, '00, Jessica Demian, Karla DeVries, '04, Inga Kiderrra, Paul Mueller.
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