Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 459 Black Pearl and Da Vinci

The white whale's head was exposed on the water. When he saw Han Xuan looking at his toy, he just didn't return it to him. His cute little eyes were extremely melancholy...

Seeing it like this, Han Xuan whispered to Owen: "Go and get a golf ball."

Irving was shocked. You should not be too shameless in life!

If you take it, you will only give it a golf ball? Isn’t this stupid bullying the white whale?

He smiled wickedly: "I'll go now and give it two balls..."

Langdon took the huge pearl, held it in his hand and turned it towards the sunlight, and said, "Did you see it?"

Black pearls have different tones such as light gray to black, and their beauty lies in the colours that exist on the dark tone.

Turn the real black pearl slowly, and you can see a slight rainbow-like flash, changing on its surface, and no two black pearls are exactly the same."

Langdon was about 1.8 meters tall and raised his hand. Han Xuan really wanted to say that he could see something...

"Black pearls are mainly produced from a black butterfly shell that can secrete black calcium carbonate.

Black butterfly beetles are mostly grown in French Polynesia coral reefs, the Cook Islands, Panama Island and the Gulf of Mexico, and can be seen occasionally in other parts of the Pacific Ocean.

This one should have been soaked in the sea water for a long time, and its color is a bit dull. The shellfish in the Ganbao Ocean Ranch has not been salvaged for nearly a hundred years. This black butterfly shell can grow to decades and often produce large pearls.

But I have never seen such a big one before. I heard that there is a black pearl nearly four centimeters in the world, much smaller than this one…”

Han Qianshan walked out with an oil painting from the Athens Academy. When he saw his son and Langdon staring at a black ball, he smiled and said, "Why did you steal Pipi's toy?"

"Dad, this is a pearl!"

Han Xuan took it from Landon, held it to him, and shone a dark green luster under the sun.

When Han Qianshan heard this, he instantly threw away the oil painting in his hand and ran over and said happily: "It's really a pearl?"

"It's very likely that if someone hadn't been a prank and threw a high-quality imitation into our fishing ground."

Han Xuan stared at the oil painting lying on the ground, his mouth twitched. He had not yet identified whether it was a master's work. My father didn't take it seriously.

The crash in London was confirmed to be the cause of a primitive Islamic sect fanatic in prison.

During the maintenance, the plane was put into a bomb.

The terrorist had an argument with several police officers escorted in advance, and it was recorded in the black box of the plane. It was announced the day before yesterday.

After the UK was banned from flying, Han Xuan took a mail boat to Italy and then took a yacht back to the United States. The company's people had to use a plane, so when they were in Miami, Florida, someone sent the things they bought to the yacht.

Last night, the Snow Mountain Docked in Los Angeles. Han Xuan arranged for people to send Michelangelo's sculpture to the old man's house. He didn't care much about this painting, and he forgot it and took it all the way to the Ganbao Ocean Ranch.

I just met Professor Gordon, the appraiser, and I remembered it.

At this time, Han's father stopped snatching Pipi's toys. He held the big pearl and smiled foolishly, saying to himself: "Can this thing be worth millions of dollars, right?"

“There is definitely, maybe more than that.

Black pearls are more than 17 mm, and one millimeter more can be a few thousand dollars apart.

Recently, some people are studying artificial breeding. When it succeeds, the price may drop, but it is so big and unique."

Langdon answered him.

"I wonder if there is still in the sea, Pipi, go down and look for it?"

Han Xuan saw his obscene smile that seduced the white whale at this moment, and he really didn't want to admit that he was his father...

Ask Gabriel to help take the painting and pat Winnie.

Winnie understood what he meant, lay down and let the master ride on it. When he noticed that Fat Ding was also jumping on his back, he turned his head dissatisfied.

Han Xuan held Fat Ding in his arms, comforted the brown bear and said, "It's time."

The silly bear immediately became happy.

Fat Ding looked at it despised and thought to himself that he was not on your back...

Going to the temporary tent again, Gabriel carefully placed the painting.

Professor Gordon put on his glasses, looked carefully, and asked, "Who did it?"

“It’s because I don’t know that I’ll ask you to help me see.

I have a friend who said it was like Leonardo da Vinci's work."

Han Xuan told him Anya's guess, and found that after hearing the name, Professor Gordon's expression changed suddenly and focused on observing the damaged parts of the oil painting.

Han’s father asked his son in surprise: “Who is Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa?”

"Well, I bought it at a UK auction."

"The painting "Academy of Athens" is so famous that after Raphael painted it, countless anti-defense works emerged, and the painting level of this painting is quite superb.

It does have the characteristics of Da Vinci's paintings, and the paper also meets the situation at that time. Look at these characters, it's too realistic."

Professor Gordon looked up and continued: "This painting has been repackaged, and the wooden frame outside has not lasted for more than a hundred years.

I want to remove it and look at the back of the painting.”

"Please feel free."

The old professors in China did not understand oil painting, but they were also shocked when they heard that Da Vinci was one of the few masters of painting who were famous all over the world.

Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter, but also an astronomer, inventor, and architectural engineer.

Good at carving, music, invention, architecture, knowledge of mathematics, physiology, physics, astronomy, and geology.

He is an absolute genius!

As the frame was disassembled a little bit, Professor Gordon put on gloves.

Turn the painting over and check it carefully on the wooden board behind it. No signature of Da Vinci was found. Put your nose on the board and smell it.

He urged the assistant and said, "Give me the magnifying glass!"

Looking close to the surface of the oil painting one centimeter or one centimeter, after more than ten minutes, Han Xuan finally couldn't help asking him: "Is this painting his?"

"It is not yet certain that it needs to be identified with instruments in the laboratory, but the possibility is quite high.

The wooden board is made of poplar wood, and Da Vinci likes to use this kind of preservation-resistant wood and has been brushed with thick anticorrosion oil.

He is left-handed and does not use a palette to paint directly on the canvas. This painting is the same as these characteristics.

Aristotle's prototype was Michelangelo, the same as the Athenian Academy painted by Raphael, but Plato, who used Leonardo as the prototype, changed.

When I was in school in Italy, I went to Florence to see Raphael's Self-portrait.

His nose is very small and delicate, similar to the image of Plato in this painting.”

Gordon's hands holding the magnifying glass were already trembling a little, because he was excited and his face turned flushed.

He took off his glasses and squeezed his eyebrows with his fingers, and said, "Sorry, I need to borrow the helicopter from yours and go back to school for a carbon 14 test..."

Han Xuan and his father looked at each other.

The same word emerged in my mind: "There is a chance!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next