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production co.
4 It may follow
cries of “Bravo!”
10 Brink
14 Longtime coach
Parseghian of
Notre Dame
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16 Witnessed
17 B.A. or B.S.
18 With 57-Across,
what a 37-Across
does; also, as the
circles show, what
each answer
containing them
does
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22 DDE’s overseas
command
23 Racers in some
Wii games
24 Item that isn’t on
its regular hook
28 Gear
components
29 Assist
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33 Say yes
35 Journalist Curry
36 Warsaw native
37 Casino employee
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42 Tolkien forest
shepherd
43 In __: unborn
44 Stun
45 “The A-Team”
actor
46 The “A” in James
A. Garfield
48 Prepared
goodies for the
fundraiser
52 Blotch
55 Former transp.
regulator
56 Confident words
57 See 18-Across
61 Keogh plan rel.
62 Many
63 Paradise
64 Third-qtr. ender
65 Actress Russo
66 Fireplace shelf
67 Goal line
crossings: Abbr.

DOWN
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palindrome

2 Eternal City
fountain
3 Legal
administrator
4 Difficult curve
5 Tenant’s winter
complaint
6 Source of
support
7 “Friend __?”:
sentry’s query
8 Slo-mo reviewer
9 Pipe shape
10 Composed piece
11 Expensive
12 Bloke
13 Fades to black
19 __ out a win
21 The State of the
Union, for one
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26 Moist and chilly
27 Nice
30 One drawn to
controversy
31 Oriole or Jay
32 MapMyWalk
starting point
33 “Waterloo” band
34 Healthy look
35 Pretend
36 Former New
York governor
George

38 Weightlifting move
39 Start a pot
40 German capital
45 Retail outlet
46 Say yes
47 Italian lawn
bowling
48 Keep moist, in a
way
49 “What I __ My
Summer
Vacation”: school
essay

50 Like some 
seals
51 Spells, as of cold
weather
52 Emotional mark
53 Beast of 
burden
54 Thames
academy
58 Run smoothly
59 LAX
announcement
60 __ Kan pet food

By Jerry Edelstein
©2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
11/15/17

11/15/17

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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6A — Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

ART NOTEBOOK

RUBENS

The Battle of Anghiari, copy by Peter Paul Rubens
The mystery of Leonardo 
da Vinci’s lost masterpiece

Writer Trina Pal takes us through one of art’s greatest mysteries: 
the tenuous connection between Vasari and Leonardo da Vinci

As I stared up at Giorgio 

Vasari’s painting, The battle 
of Marciano in Val di Chiana, 
uncontrollable chills traveled 
down my spine. I couldn’t 
believe 
that 
Leonardo 
da 

Vinci’s most revered work 
during his lifetime was right 
beneath this 43 by 25 ft fresco. 
And I’m most definitely not 
talking Mona Lisa.

I was standing in the largest 

political hall in Italy, the 
Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. 
Six similar frescoes depicting 
battle scenes ornamented the 
walls of the room, all requiring 
me to crane my neck to glimpse 
the tops. A family trip had led 
me to Italy, but as I looked up at 
the famous fresco, there didn’t 
seem to be anyone else in the 
room. All I knew was myself, 
soaking in the mystery of the 
lost masterpiece, The Battle of 
Anghiari, that was rumored to 
be behind these walls.

When it was painted in 1505, 

The Battle of Anghiari was 
regarded as the best work by 
Leonardo da Vinci, arguably 
the most well-known painter 
of the Renaissance era and 
today. This one battle scene, 
commissioned 
by 
Italian 

statesman Piero Soderini to be 
painted in the Palazzo Vecchio, 
was said to surpass any other 
painting produced during the 
Renaissance. A century later, 
however, 
painter 
Giorgio 

Vasari was told to paint over 
it by the Grand Duke Cosimo 

I. After this, there are no 
known records of The Battle of 
Anghiari. Art historians knew 
it should rest in the Palazzo 
Vecchio, but found nothing 
more than copied sketches 
by Peter Paul Rubens and da 
Vinci himself. Nothing could 
point them to the original.

But 
five 
years 
ago, 

everything changed. In March 
2012, 
Italian 
art 
analyst 

Maurizio Seracini discovered 
that Vasari’s painting actually 
rested on a thin wall about 

one to three inches in front 
of the rest of the paintings in 
the gallery. By controversially 
drilling small holes into parts 
of Vasari’s painting, Seracini 
discovered pigments behind 
this 
wall. 
After 
further 

analysis, it was found that da 
Vinci had used these same 
pigments in many of his other 
works. Not having the heart to 
destroy Leonardo’s acclaimed 
work, Vasari had built a thin 
wall over the original painting 

before painting himself. 

What’s the big fuss, you 

ask? What about this could 
cause me to feel as if I was 
in 
an 
alternate 
universe, 

standing in this grand gallery 
on this particular hot August 
afternoon? 
It’s 
simple. 
I’d 

even brought binoculars in 
preparation. 
Nothing 
was 

going to take away from this 
life changing moment, and 
nothing did.

I’ve never cared much for 

Vasari as a painter. I will, 
however, attest to the man’s 
ingenuity. Vasari, reluctant to 
paint over Leonardo’s work 
and knowing that historians 
would be searching for it 
centuries later, had included 
a vital clue in his painting. On 
one of the green flags about 
20 feet up, lost in the chaos of 
the Battle of Marciano in Val 
di Chiana, he had painted the 
words “Cerca Trova” in white 
paint. In other words, “Seek, 
and ye shall find.” It’s amazing 
that art historians didn’t find 
it earlier.

I’ve 
never 
shaken 
off 

this day of discovery. I was 
amazed these words weren’t 
found centuries earlier. This 
inscription was written on a 
painting in a room where The 
Battle of Anghiari was said to 
have existed, yet no one had 
pieced together the clues until 
five years ago.

I’ve come to two conclusions. 

One: The mysteries I always 
classified as the realm of 
fiction novels can manifest 
themselves in reality, and they 
can do so in a way that sucks 

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the breath right out of you. 
You’re left feeling as if you 
didn’t truly deserve to witness 
this moment, to see the stars 
align right in front of you. 
Two: Sometimes we don’t see 
what’s right under our noses. 
But I’m not complaining — 
had this been found centuries 
earlier, I wouldn’t have been as 
beautifully spellbound as I was 
four years ago.

The Battle of Anghiari will 

likely never be recovered. In 
order to do so, Vasari’s painting 
would have to be destroyed, 
and it’s very probable that da 
Vinci’s painting would emerge 

in a damaged condition. As an 
art enthusiast, I’m devastated 
The Battle of Anghiari won’t 
ever be seen by myself or 
the public. It’s almost more 
distressing, however, that most 
people will never know this 
painting.

It seems than an art piece 

lost isn’t as painful as an art 
piece undiscovered. Since The 
Battle of Anghiari is the latter, 
it’s as if a huge part of da Vinci’s 
reputation never existed. It 
brings up the controversial 
question: Is it just to destroy a 
“lesser” piece of art to recover 
a more famous work? As much 

as I’d love to revel in the 
glory of da Vinci’s painting, 
I couldn’t justify destroying 
another piece of art to do so.

Regardless, seeing the words 

“Cerca Trova” with my own 
eyes was an experience that 
transcended all my previous 
notions 
of 
self-discovery. 

When I close my eyes, I can 
still see the white, fine printed 
words etched in my mind.

“Seek, and ye shall find.”
 I wonder what else I’ll 

discover if I disregard the 
apparent and dive into the 
unexplored.

TRINA PAL

Daily Arts Writer

VASARI 

Battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana fresco by Giorgio Vasari

VASARI

“Cerca Trova” as painted by Giorgio Vasari in Battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana

I’ve never cared 
much for Vasari 

as a painter. I 
will, however, 

attest to the man’s 

ingenuity

