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Clint Reilly
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Leonardo
I strongly suggest that you seek editorial help with both Leonardo and Christ carrying the Cross entry. You are entering into the territory of editing wars. I do not think Wikipedia carries the heft of attribution, thus perhaps your entries should be ignored but, it seems such a thoughtless assignment of authorship, that it invites deletion. CARAVAGGISTI 22:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

(transferred from user page by--Amandajm 06:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC))

Dominicgump makes some non-verifiable claims about Leonardo. If he can verify them by citing some source, then I would agree. I would urge the authorities he speaks of, to publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals.

I am uncertain about what you are talking about when you mention Titians. Finally, while there is some heft to attributions by Christies and Sotheby's, you also need to recall that these commercial outfits have been tainted in the past few years by scandals, leading to the indictment of high ranking officials. Again, I would urge that if anyone has a novel Leonardo, please try to publish the analysis for all to see. CARAVAGGISTI 18:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Attribution of the Leonardo
Having seen on Caravaggisti's talk page, the claim that Carlo Pedretti examined the painting and agreed it was a Leonardo, I have included that information. You must realise that a claim by the owner is worthless in terms of scholarship and can only be recorded in this encyclopedia as a claim by the owner. However, an attribution made by Carlo Pedretti should be cited as such. Since this is recent, the publication in which he made the attribution should be inline cited. Other critics opinions can also be cited.

If Carlo Pedretti thinks he has found a buona fide Leonardo, then one imagines he is over the moon about it, and has published words to that effect. The tondo at the Borghese Museum, for example, has been written up in several papers. So has the Madalene, (although I would consider this attribution to be very shaky indeed.)

The bottom line is, on wikipedia questionable material can be deleted if the source is not cited. Please find the quote that says that Pedretti believes it to be Leonardo. I have searched online. I can't find a picture of the work, and the only reference I could find was to Luke Brugnara stating that in his opinion it was 100% by Leonardo and nobody had told him different. I couldn't get into the rest of the article without paying for it, and I'm not as rich as Mr Brugnara. Perhaps you could locate the article which may be useful. And also, all we Leonardo enthusiasts would love some decent pictures, if they are available.

You could upload them onto Wikipedia using the "upload" function in the toolbox, left of screen, and then leave a message on the discussion page which includes the name of the image thus- Image:Leonardo_Christ_carrying_Cross_01.jpg   which you put inside double square brackets. It then shows a small pic, with a link to the full-size one.

Hope this is helpful. --Amandajm 02:26, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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 * Well, thanks for trying anyway! Unfortunately it disappeared before I saw it!

--Amandajm 08:36, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I just found your message. Everyone has two pages. A "user page", on which you can describe yourself, or not, as you choose. And a talk page. If you want to leave messages for an individual, rather than about a particular article, go to their talk page, which you can access from the "user page" by using the tag at the top that says "discussion". Then, new topics are put at the bottom, rather than the top of the page. (It took me a while to get used to that.) To start a new discussion just click on the little cross in the menu at the top of the page. Hope this is helpful.
 * Do you want me to cite that article from Forbes magazine? --Amandajm 11:23, 9 June 2007 (UTC)