Finger points to new da Vinci art

A new Leonardo da Vinci portrait may have been discovered after a fingerprint found on it seemed similar to another discovered on his work.

A Paris laboratory found the fingerprint is "highly comparable" to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican.

Antiques Trade Gazette reported that the work, previously catalogued as "German, early 19th century", could be worth tens of millions of dollars.

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Greek God Laid Bare

A 17th-century painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin entitled “Hymenaios Disguished as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus,” was inadvertently uncovered.

Regina Pinto Moreira, a Brazilian master art restorer at the Louvre in Paris, has been restoring Poussin’s artwork for eight months alongside two French experts.

What Moreira discovered after removing layers of dirt, dust, and paint specks that accumulated over the more than three centuries-old painting of the Greek God of fertility Priapus was the deity’s erect penis.

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