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Far more troubling, however, was what lay beneath the impostor's paint.
Photographs taken with infrared reflectography and X ray suggested that this rogue painter, while filling in Da Vinci's sketched study, had made suspicious departures from the underdrawing... as if to subvert Da Vinci's true intention.
Whatever the true nature of the underdrawing, it had yet to be made public.
Even so, embarrassed officials at Florence's Uffizi Gallery immediately banished the painting to a warehouse across the street.
Visitors at the gallery's Leonardo Room now found a misleading and unapologetic plaque where the Adoration once hung.
THIS WORK IS UNDERGOING DIAGNOSTIC TESTS IN PREPARATION FOR RESTORATION.
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