Maurizio Seracini, an art conservationist, is the central figure in a real-life Leonardo 'cover-up', which puts Dan Brown's fictional conspiracy in the shade.
Seracini has spent four years investigating, with a plethora of hi-tech scanners, one of Leonardo's strangest paintings - the unfinished Adoration Of The Magi in Florence's Uffizi Gallery - and has come to the conclusion that the work as we see it today is only partly Leonardo's hand. There are no more than 20 surviving works of art by Leonardo, so the unveiling of Seracini's findings in May caused initial outrage - and some distress.
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