Siegfried Woldhek: The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?

Prevoditelj: Romana Perković Recezent: Igor Dobec

Good morning.

Dobro jutro.

Let's look for a minute at the greatest icon of all, Leonardo da Vinci.

Pogledajmo na minutu najveću ikonu od svih, Leonarda da Vincia.

We're all familiar with his fantastic work --

Svi smo upoznati sa njegovim fantastičnim radom –

his drawings, his paintings, his inventions, his writings.

njegovim crtežima, slikama, izumima, pisanim djelima.

But we do not know his face.

Ali ne znamo njegovo lice.

Thousands of books have been written about him,

Tisuće knjiga su napisane o njemu,

but there's controversy, and it remains, about his looks.

ali postoji kontroverza oko njegovog izgleda.

Even this well-known portrait is not accepted by many art historians.

Čak i ovaj dobro poznat portret nije prihvaćen od strane mnogih povjesničara umjetnosti.

So, what do you think?

Što vi mislite?

Is this the face of Leonardo da Vinci or isn't it?

Je li ovo lice Leonarda da Vincia ili nije?

Let's find out.

Saznajmo.

Leonardo was a man that drew everything around him.

Leonardo je crtao sve oko sebe.

He drew people, anatomy, plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, water, everything.

Crtao je ljude, anatomiju, biljke, životinje, pejzaže, zgrade, vodu, sve.

But no faces?

Ali lica?

I find that hard to believe.

To ne vjerujem.

His contemporaries made faces, like the ones you see here --

Njegovi suvremenici su crtali lica, kao ove što vidite ovdje.

en face or three-quarters.

En face ili tri četvrtine.

So, surely a passionate drawer like Leonardo

Strastveni crtač kao što je Leonardo

must have made self-portraits from time to time.

morao je napraviti autoportrete s vremena na vrijeme.

So let's try to find them.

Pokušajmo ih pronaći.

I think that if we were to scan all of his work

Ako skeniramo sva njegova djela

and look for self-portraits, we would find his face looking at us.

djela i potražimo autoportrete, naći ćemo njegovo lice kako nas gleda.

So I looked at all of his drawings, more than 700,

Pogledao sam sve njegove crteže, više od 700,

and looked for male portraits.

i tražio portrete muškaraca.

There are about 120, you see them here.

Ima ih oko 120, vidite ih ovdje.

Which ones of these could be self-portraits?

Koji od ovih bi mogli biti autoportreti?

Well, for that they have to be done as we just saw, en face or three-quarters.

Moraju biti napravljeni en face ili tri četvrtine.

So we can eliminate all the profiles.

Možemo ukloniti sve profile.

It also has to be sufficiently detailed.

Također mora biti dovoljno detaljno.

So we can also eliminate the ones that are very vague or very stylized.

Možemo ukloniti i one koje su vrlo nejasni ili vrlo stilizirani.

And we know from his contemporaries

Od njegovih suvremenika znamo

that Leonardo was a very handsome, even beautiful man.

da je Leonardo bio zgodan, čak lijep muškarac.

So we can also eliminate the ugly ones or the caricatures.

Možemo također ukloniti ružne slike ili karikature.

(Laughter)

(smijeh)

And look what happens -- only three candidates remain that fit the bill.

Gledajte što se dogodilo – ostala su samo tri kandidata koja odgovaraju.

And here they are.

Evo ih.

Yes, indeed, the old man is there,

Istina, starac je ovdje,

as is this famous pen drawing of the Homo Vitruvianus.

kao i ovaj poznati crtež Homo Vitruvianos.

And lastly, the only portrait of a male that Leonardo painted, "The Musician."

Posljednji, jedini portret muškarca kojeg je Leonardo naslikao, “Glazbenik.”

Before we go into these faces,

Prije nego što analiziramo slike,

I should explain why I have some right to talk about them.

trebao bih objasniti zašto imam pravo pričati o njima.

I've made more than 1,100 portraits myself

Napravio sam 1100 portreta za novine,

for newspapers, over the course of 300 -- 30 years, sorry, 30 years only.

kroz 300 – 30 godina, oprostite, kroz samo 30 godina.

(Laughter)

(smijeh)

But there are 1,100, and very few artists have drawn so many faces.

Ali jako malo umjetnika je nacrtalo 1100 portreta.

So I know a little about drawing and analyzing faces.

Tako da znam ponešto o crtanju i analiziranju lica.

OK, now let's look at these three portraits.

OK, pogledajmo ova tri portreta.

And hold onto your seats, because if we zoom in on those faces,

Držite se za sjedala, jer ako zumiramo ova lica,

remark how they have the same broad forehead, the horizontal eyebrows,

primijetite kako svi imaju široko čelo, horizontalne obrve,

the long nose, the curved lips and the small, well-developed chin.

dugačak nos, zakrivljene usne, i malu, dobro razvijenu bradu.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw that.

Nisam mogao vjerovati kada sam prvi put vidio.

There is no reason why these portraits should look alike.

Nema razloga zašto bi ovi portreti trebali sličiti.

All we did was look for portraits that had the characteristics of a self-portrait,

Sve što smo učinili jest da smo gledali portrete koji imaju karakteristike autoportreta,

and look, they are very similar.

pogledajte, jako su slični.

Now, are they made in the right order?

Ali jesu li napravljeni po pravilnom redoslijedu?

The young man should be made first.

Mladić bi trebao biti prvi napravljen.

And as you see here from the years that they were created,

Kao što vidite ovdje, po godinama u kojima su napravljene,

it is indeed the case.

doista je tako.

They are made in the right order.

Napravljene su po pravilnom redoslijedu.

What was the age of Leonardo at the time? Does that fit?

Koliko je godina Leonardo imao tada? Odgovara li to?

Yes, it does. He was 33, 38 and 63 when these were made.

Odgovara. Imao je 33, 38 i 63 kada su te slike napravljene.

So we have three pictures, potentially of the same person

Imamo tri slike, potencijalno od iste osobe

of the same age as Leonardo at the time.

istih godina kao Leonardo tada.

But how do we know it's him, and not someone else?

Ali kako znamo da je to on, a ne netko drugi?

Well, we need a reference.

Trebamo nagovještaj.

And here's the only picture of Leonardo that's widely accepted.

Ovo je jedina slika Leonarda koja je široko prihvaćena.

It's a statue made by Verrocchio, of David,

Verrocchio je napravio taj kip Davida,

for which Leonardo posed as a boy of 15.

kojeg je Leonardo pozirao kao petnaestogodišnji dečko.

And if we now compare the face of the statue,

Usporedimo li lice kipa

with the face of the musician, you see the very same features again.

sa licem glazbenika, opet ćete vidjeti iste osobine.

The statue is the reference, and it connects the identity of Leonardo

Kip je nagovještaj i povezuje identitet Leonarda

to those three faces.

sa ta tri lica.

Ladies and gentlemen, this story has not yet been published.

Dame i gospodo, ova priča još nije objavljena.

It's only proper that you here at TED hear and see it first.

Ispravno je da ju vi na TED-u prvi čujete i vidite.

The icon of icons finally has a face.

Ikona svih ikona je napokon dobila lice.

Here he is: Leonardo da Vinci.

Evo ga – Leonardo da Vinci.

(Applause)

(pljesak)