Italian researchers believe they have unearthed a previously unknown self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci drawn when the artist was a young man.

The faint pencil sketch has emerged after being hidden for 500 years in one of the Renaissance genius’s most famous manuscripts, the “Codex on the Flight of Birds”, written between 1490 and 1505.

Source: Telegraph

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