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在被认为15世纪达芬奇的作品之前，《美丽公主》一直以《穿文艺复兴时装的19世纪德国少女的肖像》为题出售。牛津大学艺术史教授马丁·坎普是达芬奇研究专家，也是最早宣称该画作的高贵出身的专业人士之一。据他推测，画中的模特是米兰公爵鲁多维科斯佛尔扎的私生女，于是他重新命名这幅作品为《La Bella Principessa》，即《美丽公主》。
adv. 绝对地，完全地;独立地
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- And if I'm right and this is a volume of poetry
- 如果我没猜错,真的有这么一本诗册
- and of course it would make a lovely front piece
- 那当然这幅画会是一个精美的封面
- or somewhere in the volume accompanying these poems
- 或者会和诗歌一起夹在诗册中间
- evoking the young woman's beauty and her innocence etc.
- 让人想起这个年轻女人的美貌和纯真等等
- These would be presented to the young woman in question,
- 这本诗册会被献给这个公主
- they would probably then go on a shelf.
- 然后很可能就被搁在书架上
- You look at them and they'd be delightful
- 看着它会觉得很悦目
- but they'd be part of a suite of aristocratic things
- 但它只是这些上流贵族的摆设品之一
- and unlike jewellery you couldn't wear them
- 它不像珠宝,你戴不了它
- so they were probably relatively useless in that sense
- 所以从这个意义上讲,它没什么用处
- and they lived for the moment of presentation.
- 它们存在的意义就在于被献上的那一刻
- It would be wondrous,it might be looked at.
- 它可能很惊人,可能会有人看它
- But one reason you wouldn't know about this portrait
- 但我们不知道达芬奇画过这一幅画的原因是
- is to have a Leonardo portrait sitting in a library
- 把一幅达芬奇的画放在书房里
- in a book of not very brilliant poetry is that it just gets lost.
- 放在一本平庸的诗册里,它肯定会丢失
- So we can get that hypothetical function for it.
- 所以这是我们对这幅画的功能的假设
- What would be really nice
- 当然如果能找到那本
- of course would be to discover the book that it's cut out of
- 它被割下来的诗册,那就最好不过了
- but the chances are it was cut out of the book
- 但很可能割下这幅画的人
- by somebody who wanted the portrait but didn't want the book
- 只想要这幅画,不想要那本书
- so we can imagine the book of poems
- 所以我们可以想象,那本诗册
- was probably ditched at that point.
- 很可能已经被丢弃了
- Interviewer: So Martin you were saying at the beginning
- 马丁,你一开始的时候说
- that you had a sense of immediate recognition
- 你感觉到一眼就认出
- that made this painting different from all the other things
- 这幅画不同于以前你见过的那些假画
- that you had seen and the different attributions
- 不同于别人拿给你看的那些
- that have been presented to you.
- 冒充是达芬奇的画
- After you've looked at it more closely
- 在你仔细地看了这幅画
- 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?
- 现在你对这幅画有什么感觉?
- Well you go through
- 你经过
- all this process of looking for negatives
- 这么多程序,寻找反面证据
- which you have to keep doing.
- 你必须一直这么找
- But at a certain point it all adds up and the delights that I had
- 但就在某个时候,一切都证据都成立了,我第一次
- when I first saw it was being reinforced enormously
- 见到它的快乐极大的加强了
- and I'm absolutely convinced I think that it's rock solid.
- 我绝对相信,我觉得它毫无疑问就是了
- But above all it is thrilling to look at.
- 但最主要的是,看着它实在太激动了
- It's being restored as an old object.
- 它是古董了,现在要对它进行修复
- We're not going to look very good after 500 years
- 经过500的时间,谁也不会好看
- but it is just thrilling still.
- 但它仍然能让人激动不已
- It has an enormous freshness,a delicacy.
- 它有着强烈的新鲜感,精美感
- When you look at it in itself there's extraordinary presence.
- 当你看着它时,就会觉得有个活人站在你面前
- I've seen the Mona Lisa out of it's frame,
- 我见过从画框上拿出来的蒙娜丽莎
- I've seen all The Louvre pictures out of their frames.
- 我见过卢浮宫里所有的画从画框上拿出来的样子
- I've seen the Cecelia Gallirani out of it's frame.
- 我见过从画框上拿出来的Cecelia Gallirani
- And all of them have,not mystically inclined,
- 它们都有...不是我故弄玄虚
- but all of them have an inner life.
- 但它们都有一种内在的生命力
- The sitter's seem to live.
- 画中人似乎是活着的
- And very few artists can do that. Rembrandt can do it.
- 很少画家能做到这点,伦伯朗能做到
- Benini can do it in sculpture but the numbers
- 贝尼尼的雕刻能做到,但不是很多人
- who get that uncanny sense of a presence imbedded in the picture,
- 能够在画上表现出这种活生生的感觉
- a living presence.
- 就像一个活生生的人在眼前
- This very much has that.
- 这幅画也有这种感觉
- It has the delicacy it has the vibrancy
- 它精美,有活力
- which I think will give generations of viewers enormous pleasure.
- 我想它会给后代的观画人带来巨大的乐趣
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