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 E-Mail IMAGE: The Flora Wax Bust Inventory n° 5951, Skulpturensammlung (SBM), Museum für Byzantinische Kunst (SBM), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMB) - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) view more  Credit: © SMB-SPK It is machination, it is deception, said the Director General of the Berlin Royal Museums in his defence when criticized for buying a fake. Wilhelm Bode did not budge an inch: the sculpture he acquired in 1909 was an as yet unknown production of the great Renaissance master, Leonardo da Vinci. After one hundred years and numerous controversies, a group of scientists led by a CNRS researcher has just proven him wrong once and for all. The Flora wax bust, conserved at the Bode Museum in Berlin, recently underwent radiocarbon (14C) dating, which provided both a precise date and an incontrovertible result: it was made in the nineteenth century, nearly 300 years after da Vinci s death. As the sculpture was made primarily from spermaceti, a kind of

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