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A masterpiece painting from the Renaissance era, long attributed to Fra Bartolomeo, may have been painted by master artist, Leonardo da Vinci.

The painting in question, "The Adoration of the Christ Child," has been on display in the Galleria Borghese, located in Rome. A fingerprint found in the paint and certain artistic similarities discovered by restorationists give fuel to the possibility that da Vinci may have been responsible for the painting.

According to IOL.com

A crucial clue - or perhaps a red herring - came during a recent restoration: a centuries-old fingerprint fixed in the paint. That, along with stylistic similarities, made scholars think of Leonardo - who sometimes left a digital imprint on his works as a kind of signature

Photographs of the Adoration will be flown in March to Krakow, Poland, to compare its fingerprint, uncovered at the end of a yearlong restoration that ended in November, with the one on the Leonardo masterpiece Lady With An Ermine.

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