(Photo: Maurizio Seracini, Courtesy of Laila Pozzo, UCSD)
Originally aired June 12, 2007.
Alison St John (Guest Host): Do you look at paintings by the old masters, people like Michelangelo and Botticelli, and marvel that the brush strokes you are looking at were actually made centuries ago. Do you wonder what the painter was thinking, how he reached that final image, if he changed his mind along the way?
Our guest is an art detective or an "art diagnostician." He uses advanced scientific techniques to delve below the surface of the world's most famous and valuable paintings. He is leaving for Italy later today on a mission to uncover a lost work by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Guests
- Maurizio Seracini (pictured) , "art diagnostician" and director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), which is part of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UCSD.
- Derrick Cartwright, executive director of the San Diego Museum of Art .
