Good morning. Let's look for a minute at the greatest icon of all, Leonardo da Vinci. We're all familiar with his fantastic work -- his drawings, his paintings, his inventions, his writings. But we do not know his face. Thousands of books have been written about him, but there's controversy, and it remains, about his looks. Even this well-known portrait is not accepted by many art historians.
Dobro jutro. Osvrnimo se na trenutak na najveću ikonu od svih, Leonarda da Vinčija. Svi smo upoznati sa njegovim fantastičnim radovima - crtežima, slikama, izumima, pisanjem. Ali ne znamo kako on izgleda. Hiljade knjiga je napisano o njemu, ali kontraverza koja ostaje je kako on izgleda. Čak i ovaj poznati portret nije prihvaćen od strane mnogih istoričara umetnosti.
So, what do you think? Is this the face of Leonardo da Vinci or isn't it? Let's find out. Leonardo was a man that drew everything around him. He drew people, anatomy, plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, water, everything. But no faces? I find that hard to believe. His contemporaries made faces, like the ones you see here -- en face or three-quarters. So, surely a passionate drawer like Leonardo must have made self-portraits from time to time. So let's try to find them.
Šta vi mislite? Da li je ovo lice Leonarda da Vinčija ili ne? Hajde da saznamo. Leonardo je bio čovek koji je crtao sve što ga okružuje, Crtao je ljude, anatomiju, biljke, životinje, pejzaže, zgrade, vodu, sve. Ali ne i lica? Teško mi je da poverujem u to. Njegovi savremenici su crtali lica, kao ova koja vidite ovde. Anfas ili tri četvrtine. Tako da je sigurno da je strastveni crtač kao što je Leonardo morao da napravi neki autoportret s vremena na vreme. Hajde da pokušsamo da ih nađemo.
I think that if we were to scan all of his work and look for self-portraits, we would find his face looking at us. So I looked at all of his drawings, more than 700, and looked for male portraits. There are about 120, you see them here. Which ones of these could be self-portraits? Well, for that they have to be done as we just saw, en face or three-quarters. So we can eliminate all the profiles. It also has to be sufficiently detailed. So we can also eliminate the ones that are very vague or very stylized. And we know from his contemporaries that Leonardo was a very handsome, even beautiful man. So we can also eliminate the ugly ones or the caricatures. (Laughter)
Mislim da ćemo naći njegovo lice koje nas posmatra ako skeniramo sve njegove radove i potražimo autoportrete. Pregledao sam sve njegove radove, preko 700 njih, i tražio sam muške portrete. Ima ih oko 120, možete da ih vidite. Koji od ovih bi mogli biti autoportreti? Moraju biti urađeni kao primeri koje smo malo pre videli, anfas ili tri četvrtine. Znači možemo da eliminišemo sve profile. Takođe moraju imati dovoljno detalja. Znači možemo da eliminišemo i one koji su veoma nejasni ili veoma stilizovani. A od njegovih savremenika znamo da je Leonardo bio veoma zgodan, čak i lep čovek. Znači možemo da eliminišemo one koji su ružni i karikature. (Smeh)
And look what happens -- only three candidates remain that fit the bill. And here they are. Yes, indeed, the old man is there, as is this famous pen drawing of the Homo Vitruvianus. And lastly, the only portrait of a male that Leonardo painted, "The Musician."
I pogledajte sta se dešava - samo tri kandidata ostaju. Evo ih. Da zaista, stari čovek je ovde, kao i njegov poznati crtež Homo Vitruvianos. I na kraju, jedini portret muškarca koji je Leonardo naslikao, "Muzičar".
Before we go into these faces, I should explain why I have some right to talk about them. I've made more than 1,100 portraits myself for newspapers, over the course of 300 -- 30 years, sorry, 30 years only. (Laughter) But there are 1,100, and very few artists have drawn so many faces. So I know a little about drawing and analyzing faces. OK, now let's look at these three portraits. And hold onto your seats, because if we zoom in on those faces, remark how they have the same broad forehead, the horizontal eyebrows, the long nose, the curved lips and the small, well-developed chin.
Pre nego što krenemo u analizu ovih lica, objasniću zašto imam pravo da pričam o njima. Ja sam napravio više od 1100 portreta za novine, u periodu od 300 - 30 godina, pardon, samo 30 godina. (Smeh) Ali ima ih 1100 i mali broj umetinka je uradio toliki broj lica. Tako da znam ponešto o crtanju i analizi lica. Dobro, hajde sada da pogledamo ova tri portreta. I ostanite u sedištima, jer ako zumiramo ova lica, obratite pažnju kako imaju ista široka čela, horizontalne obrve, dugačak nos, zakrivljene usne i male, dobro razvijene brade.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw that. There is no reason why these portraits should look alike. All we did was look for portraits that had the characteristics of a self-portrait, and look, they are very similar. Now, are they made in the right order? The young man should be made first. And as you see here from the years that they were created, it is indeed the case. They are made in the right order. What was the age of Leonardo at the time? Does that fit? Yes, it does. He was 33, 38 and 63 when these were made.
Nisam mogao da poverujem svojim očima kada sam prvi put video to. Nema razloga da ovi portreti liče jedan na drugi. A mi smo samo tražili portrete koji imaju iste karakteristike autoportreta, i pogledajte, veoma su slični. Sada, da li su napravljeni po dobrom redosledu? Mladić bi trebalo da je prvi. I kao što vidite po godinama kada su napravljeni, to i jeste slučaj. Napravljeni su po dobrom redosledu. Koliko je godina imao Leonardo u to vreme? Da li se uklapa? Da, uklapa se. Imao je 33, 38 i 63 godine kada su ovi portreti napravljeni.
So we have three pictures, potentially of the same person of the same age as Leonardo at the time. But how do we know it's him, and not someone else? Well, we need a reference. And here's the only picture of Leonardo that's widely accepted. It's a statue made by Verrocchio, of David, for which Leonardo posed as a boy of 15. And if we now compare the face of the statue, with the face of the musician, you see the very same features again. The statue is the reference, and it connects the identity of Leonardo to those three faces.
Znači imamo 3 slike, potencijalno iste osobe i istih godina kao i Leonardo u to vreme. Ali kako da znamo da je to on, a ne neko drugi? Pa, potrebna nam je referenca. I evo jedine slike Leonarda koja je opšte prihvaćena. To je statua Davida, koju je napravio Verroćio, za koju je Leonardo pozirao kada je bio dečko od 15 godina. I ako uporedimo lice statue, sa licem muzičara, opet ćete videti iste karakteristike. Statua je referenca i ona povezuje identitet Leonarda sa ova tri lica.
Ladies and gentlemen, this story has not yet been published. It's only proper that you here at TED hear and see it first. The icon of icons finally has a face. Here he is: Leonardo da Vinci. (Applause)
Dame i gospodo, ova priča još uvek nije objavljena. Jedino je ispravno da je vi prvi ovde na TED-u čujete i vidite. Ikona svih ikona konačno ima lice. Evo ga - Leonardo da Vinči. (Aplauz)