The faint pencil sketch of what is believed to be a self-portrait by da Vinci has emerged after being hidden for 500 years in one of the Renaissance genius’s most famous manuscripts, the “Codex on the Flight of Birds”, written between 1490 and 1505.
“In a discovery that could have come from the script of a Dan Brown thriller, an Italian scientific journalist studying the document noticed the faint outline of a human nose hidden underneath lines of ink handwriting, It struck him as being similar in shape and drawing style to a later self-portrait of Leonardo.”
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