And I'm more and more inclined to think the portrait
我越来越倾向于认为这幅肖像
is for a volume of posthumous poems.
是收录在她死后的一本诗册里的
It was only four months anyway
她结婚只有四个月
and the poems may have been ready for her marriage.
这些诗可能是为她的婚礼而写的
But it would explain that she is a Milanese princess,
这也解释了为什么她是一个米兰公主
but it's not celebratory it's not over the top.
而这幅画的气氛却不是喜庆的,不是高调的
The costume is relatively subdued and there are no pearls.
她的服装比较压抑,没有珍珠
Often they have pearls hanging from their knotted hair.
通常她们结起来的头发都会吊着珍珠
Dripping in pearls as it were.
有珍珠从头发上垂下来
And she's not so I suspect,I can't prove it's Bianca
但她不是这样,我怀疑她不是Bianca,但我证明不了
but you can take out the other Milanese leading women one by one
但你可以逐个排除其他米兰地位最高的贵族女人
because we know what they look like.
因为我们都知道她们长什么样
It becomes a nice romantic story as well.
这也是一个挺浪漫的故事
Romeo and Juliet stuff,the young and violins are playing.
像罗密欧和朱丽叶那样,年轻恋人,飘荡着小提琴声
I don't want to be too romantic about it,
我不想把它想得过于浪漫
but it adds a poignancy.
但它增添了一点让人心酸的感觉
I think there's a very good possibility that it is Bianca.
我觉得很有可能是Bianca
Interviewer: Leading on from the idea of a portrait potentially
设想这个画可能
not being drawn from life,but after her death,
不是生前画的,而是死后画的
do the pentimenti support that or are
修改笔画的再现能证明这点吗
they characteristic of Leonardo's method of working in general?
还是这些是达芬奇一般的画法特点?
What we found is,
我们发现
the scientific examination was already underway
当这幅出现在我面前时
by the time the portrait crossed my path.
他们已经在做科学检验了
Pascal Cotte in Paris
巴黎的Pascal Cotte
who runs a company called Lumiere Technology,
他经营一间叫光明技术的公司
has got an amazing method of photographing a picture
这间公司有一项高超的拍画技术
called multispectral scanning.
叫多谱扫描
And this consists of taking 11 photographs
这张照片由11张用不同的光谱波段
across different spectral bands which means you can do that
拍出来的照片组成的,这意味着
with a definition that is way beyond ordinary photography.
你可以拍出普通拍照技术拍不出来的高分辨率
It includes ultraviolet
它包括非可见光谱
at the far end of the non visible spectrum
一端是紫外线
and three infrared bands at the other end.
另一端是三个红外线波段
So you get this extraordinary visual survey of the picture
所以用多谱扫描你能得出这张
with this multispectral scanning.
非常清晰的扫描图
Which produces both enormously high resolution
多谱扫描能产生非常高的分辨率
which allows us to see a lot of details.
这能让我们看到非常多细节
The infrared goes through image
红外线穿透过图画
and you can see things under the surface which we come back to.
你可以看到表面下的东西,我们等一下会看到
And the Ultraviolet tends to show
紫外线会拍到
and pick up things added later.
后来加上去的东西
But just looking and zooming in on the compounded image
看着和放大这张合成照片
you can begin to see pentimenti changes of mind.
你可以看到笔画随着他的想法而改变
Not big ones but enough to show that the artist is manoeuvring.
不是很大的改动,但足以看出画家的操作