The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

What do you say?

It's more like a legendary story.

"Caravaggio's "Medusa" is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. When I was studying, I saw the pictures in the painting magazine. It was a male and female Medusa whose head had just been chopped off. The head of a poisonous snake has a surprised expression and can't believe it.

The "Medusa" in the record is more like a Leonardo's own invention, more like a monster..."

This picture on the desk is more like a monster, a monster that wants to crawl out of a pile of rocks!

"It should be in 1469. Da Vinci’s father Piero was in his suburban villa. An acquaintance from the same village found him with a piece of log cut flat from a large tree stump. Qi drew a picture on the log to take it back to decorate the house.

It is said that this man is good at catching birds and fishing, and Piero often needs him, so he agreed.

After Piero returned to Florence, he saw his son and gave the log to Leonardo, but he didn't say how the log came or who he painted it for.

The 17-year-old Da Vinci was very dedicated. He first found a carpenter to smooth and polish the log, then scraped a layer of plaster on it by himself, and then began to think about what to paint.

In the end, he didn't know what was going on. He wanted to draw a scary one, just like Medusa's head is dead.

As a result, he collected strange-looking animals such as lizards, grasshoppers, locusts, snakes, butterflies, and bats, and prevented others from entering his studio...

The finished painting shocked his old dad Piero, thinking he saw a living monster, which was exactly what Da Vinci wanted. "

Speaking of this, Alice stopped and said again: "It's too bright here, should we turn off the lights and try it? This painting seems to be darkened to look at it. That's what Leonardo did."

Try it, try it, Zhang Nan has never tried this painting like that: dim the lights in the study, just like the time when there were no electric lights.

result……

With fire in his eyes and smoke in his nose, the monster is alive, trying to crawl out!

The lights dimmed and Zhang Nan was taken aback when his eyes adjusted to it!

It’s not the “fake and the real” of general oil painting techniques, but the real feeling that it is a living monster about to run out of the pile of rocks.

At the first glance, even the round shield was ignored.

In the three-dimensional oil painting, Zhang Nan seemed to remember that there were people in Chinese traditional paintings who could paint such an effect: the painter Cao Buxing of the Three Kingdoms period "dropped ink as a fly", but he almost didn't bother Sun Quan to death and kept driving flies there.

In addition, Tang Yin, a contemporary of Leonardo, learned painting from Shen Zhou, and student Bo Hu was somewhat complacent. One day in class, Shen Zhou asked Tang Yin to open the window. Tang Yin approached and discovered that it was the window painted by Shen Zhou. This was awe-inspiring and continued to study painting seriously.

It's a pity that the two Chinese paintings that can be fake and real have not been passed down to future generations, and there are no copies, and future generations can only listen to legends.

Now I see a painting that can really achieve that effect. Although it is an oil painting, it is amazing enough!

"...500 years ago, Da Vinci's father was shocked, but he was still very happy and took the painting away.

But instead of giving the painting to the people in the same village, he found another log and drew a red heart and a heart-piercing arrow casually. As a result, the person in the same village was actually very satisfied with this "Love Arrow Piercing Heart", and said that he would never forget Piero's kindness for the rest of his life.

Piero sent the villagers away, turned around and sold "Medusa" painted by his son Leonardo to a Florentine businessman, earning 100 gold coins. And the businessman later transferred the painting to the Duke of Milan, earning 300 gold coins!

If this story is true, together with this authentic work, we can conclude that Caravaggio’s "Medusa" should not have imitated Leonardo’s paintings, and Caravaggio’s Medusa’s head is not among the rocks, and There is no fire or smoke, which is far from the composition of Da Vinci's original painting. "

After the story of Alice was finished, Zhang Nan thought it was very interesting, and said with a smile: "If the story is true, of course, it can also show that Da Vinci's father is not good at character and bullies the rural people. Also, the businessman and the Duke of Milan Both are 250!"

250. Everyone around you knows what it means. Zhang Nan's vocabulary of "invention and creation" has allusions and reasons unknown, but everyone can understand it.

Alice smiled and said: "It's two fools, hundreds of gold coins, and every gold coin circulating in Florence has 30 grams of zero, and hundreds of them buy an oil painting painted by a 17-year-old painter apprentice. It's either hype or hype. There is something tricky!"

No one knows what happened 500 years ago, but it doesn't matter, it just needs to be the real Leonardo.

Don't say how much his painting is worth, talk about money cheesy!

Van Gogh’s paintings are valuable, and Picasso’s paintings are also valuable. Da Vinci’s existing oil paintings, including unfinished and collaborative paintings, still have about 20, but it seems that there is no price.

When the "Mona Lisa" was stolen in 1911, some people valued it at 1.5 million US dollars, but another estimated that it would exceed 3 billion francs.

Finally, I went back to the Louvre, but Da Vinci's paintings still didn't have a price. The major museums with original collections would not sell them.

It is said that another one was discovered more than 20 years later and sold for about 80 million US dollars, but it is only known whether this painting is a real or fake fairy.

But even if it is true, it has been repaired on a large scale, and its value cannot be used as a criterion.

"Ellen, will you make this painting public?"

It was Alice who asked.

"Not for the time being, but I will hang it in the study to scary people."

There is no need to make it public. I don't lack money and don't want too much reputation. I can't escape the public view without time. How can I be in the mood to pretend to be forced or put on a scene.

Outsiders in my own study can't get in at all, so I hang Leonardo on the opposite side of Repin, which feels very good!

Put the shield up, and let the curious Adjani and Alice look at some items related to Hitler in the safe in the study. It was time to wash and sleep.

Zhang Nan was very busy tonight. After taking a shower in the front, Nicole and Jenny had a battle. After that, the two women were reasonable. Zhang Nan went to the bathroom with Zhang Nan in the middle of the night. Liz accompanies her daughter Lili to guard the vacancy.

Zhang Nan felt that he had to take care of his family, otherwise he would have to be exhausted!

It's only 20 years old now, and in another ten years, it must be drained. It is nonsense to think that it has not been hung on the wall in a hundred years!

what to do?

exercise!

It's not the kind of gym, but the Taoist regimen.

"Yongle Dadian" has long asked the curator of agriculture to entrust Taoist masters to study the health cultivation techniques recorded in "Yongle Dadian". It contains the content of practicing "inner alchemy", and there is no such thing as eating "golden alchemy" in a mess.

Don't even think about becoming immortal. It should have some effect to strengthen your body and prolong your life.

It's not eight o'clock in the morning...

For the time being early in the morning, Zhang Nan was sitting cross-legged on a piece of granite on the side of the strait among the forests of the manor, quietly breathing in the fresh air full of negative ions.

For three consecutive days, meditate for half an hour, and then practice another set of internal exercises with Guan boss and brother-in-law.

Three days...

If they didn't play with their brother-in-law, that inner strength mentality is nonsense to me, I don't understand or feel it at all!

For hard work and external attacks, first practice for more than ten or twenty years, and then look at the internal skills, you may gain a little bit.

For laymen like Zhang Nan, even if there are two “teachers” who are both half-thinking about themselves, they are still at a loss.

The same goes for Randy and the others. The Americans are even less able to understand the traditional Chinese culture, and even Qiu Bo and the others can't practice it.

The bodyguards also practiced with Xiang Weirong for a few days, but they all knew themselves very quickly and found that it was more reliable to go to the shooting range and gym in their free time.

Except for Lin Ming, this guy is a freak. Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan practiced the whole body. After that guy got them, he thought it was very effective.

There is a family tradition of martial arts, saying that he practiced this way, he might not lose his hands after he was 60 or 70 years old.

Most of Lin Ming's kung fu is in his hands, so let's practice. It's better than 30 years without even using chopsticks.

...

A week after returning to New York, Madeleine, the organizer of the salon, called Nicole and said that the other party wanted to exchange diamonds for the few oriental antiques and artworks that he had left.

It is not the retail market price of the "Star Group", but the rough selling price of the diamond manufacturer in the Brussels Diamond Exchange in Belgium.

Very confident bargaining chip, diamonds need all high-grade rough diamonds of more than ten carats, because the other party thinks that his collection is worth more than 5 million U.S. dollars.

I pinch my nose and recognize it!

When the deal was concluded on October 5th, Zhang Nan paid a rough diamond with a retail price of approximately US$20 million and exchanged it for three things.

The middleman said that the other party had taken out all the collections, and Zhang Nan could only recognize it on the surface.

Inwardly...

accurate! Very upset!

Being a Chinese, paying such a big price to exchange for the treasure of Man Qing is equivalent to his mother's being robbed again!

As soon as he returned to the manor with his things, Zhang Nan thought more and more angry, and couldn't help asking Nicole: "Is there any way to kill that **** in business!"

"It's hard, they are not gamblers."

Nicole didn't understand: If changing these three things is a loss-making business, then why change?

Then there is nothing wrong. People just deal with themselves in accordance with business rules. The big deal seems to be determined by themselves: who will let themselves have the face of a Huaxia.

Can't send someone to kill the whole family!

I am a law-abiding citizen in the United States, not a robber, a murderer, or a terrorist, at least for now.

"Forget it, if he still has it, then think of a way to kill him!"

Men, they always like to say something cruel in this situation.

"loss?"

Nicole asked carefully: Last month's Yahya-Jameme was spineless, and the people in the family who were still alive were thrown into the prison in Gambia. The news came back that most of them died because of the disease.

Say killing the whole family is the whole family!

"No loss, a string of Dongzhu Dynasty beads, a string of Ruby Dynasty beads plus the phoenix crown on the old witch's head, I can't lose money."

Why is that angry?

Nicole didn't understand.

However, if you don't understand, you don't understand, your own man's unhappiness is his own unhappiness, no other reason is needed.

"Ellen, when I finish my work in Japan, I'll see if I can shrink that guy a little bit through a third party."

Hearing this, Zhang Nan calmed down instead and said, "Forget it, it's too much trouble. If it's really upset, let Thomas send someone to drive a truck and hit him half-deadly, without wanting his life.

Traffic accidents are unavoidable for anyone, and the ends are clean. "

To kill in a traffic accident, as long as you don’t do it yourself, don’t wear help, and don’t take full responsibility for your skills.

The insurance company pays for such a "homicide"!

It is also a court bead. The Dongzhu produced in the Songhua River is a court bead. This is the most expensive and high-ranking bead in the Qing imperial court regulations. Only emperors, empress dowagers, empress dowagers, and empresses can wear them.

The Qing Dynasty was very strict in customizing. In the case of court beads, the emperor's court beads were decorated with east beads, lapis lazuli was used for ceremonies, honey amber beads were used for ceremonies, coral beads were used for morning sun, and turquoise beads were used for evening moons.

The queen, the empress dowager, and the empress dowager wear three sets of court beads, one set of east beads, and two sets of coral beads, and one set of court beads, all with yellow ribbons.

The imperial concubine, the imperial concubine, and the concubine have three sets of court beads, the honey amber one, and the coral two, the auspicious dresses a set of beads, and the bright yellow tape.

The perimeter of this east bead is 134 cm. The main body is composed of 108 pinky-sized, round and crystal "walking disk" east beads, with transparent ruby ​​heads 4 in between. Each head is accompanied by lapis lazuli on both sides. Bead 1.

The top of the Buddha's head is connected with the East Pearl Turquoise Buddha Head Pagoda 1, and the bottom of the tower is pierced by a bright yellow ribbon with an oval gold wire inlaid with golden emeralds and red and sapphire back clouds. The upper and lower back clouds are each decorated with east beads and red coral. Bat-shaped knot 1, and the end of the back cloud is draped with the East Pearl Golden Resotto ruby ​​pendant 1.

The 3 series of commemorations are composed of sapphires, each with 10 pieces, and the end is draped with East Pearl Golden Restor Ruby Pendant.

The inlaid technique of millet beads is also used on the silk ribbons, which is fully in line with all the characteristics of the Dongzhu dynasty beads of the Qing Dynasty, plus the female model, which is worn by the empress dowager and empress.

However, based on Zhang Nan's poor knowledge of court beads, it is impossible to determine the age of its production and use. To understand it, you have to go to the Palace Museum to compare the characteristics of court beads from various periods in the Qing Dynasty.

Without that effort, I will talk about it later. Anyway, when Nong Bosheng retires, he will become his professional appraisal master in all likelihood.

The rubies on that plate of ruby ​​facing beads are arranged on both sides at a time according to their size and diameter, and the larger ones are more than 1.2 cm in diameter.

However, there are some discrepancies with the current people's judgment of rubies, many of which are translucent at best.

But there are also many high-level ones. It's a pity that Brown who accompanies Zhang Nan is there: if there is no perforation, it will be fine!

Two sets of top court beads made Zhang Nan feel good ~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ not to mention that top: there are 9 golden phoenixes on it, and each phoenix's mouth contains a huge Dongzhu!

According to Brown's judgment, the weight of the largest pearl should have exceeded 120 grams!

Zhang Nan estimated that this pearl was the legendary super East Pearl whose market price was judged to be 11 million taels of silver before the Qing Dynasty basically lost its place of origin.

Crudely converted into current purchasing power, it is worth nearly 100 million U.S. dollars!

And the other 8 pearls were valued at 7.8 million taels of silver at that time. Even if the Qing court appraisal was a pit, that would be incredible!

The **** regarded these Dongzhu as ordinary antique freshwater pearls, otherwise the lion would have to speak out.

Adding these three things together, it's strange that you will lose!

Nicole is still a pity that those huge pearls, if it weren't for Zhang Nan's statement that they were probably taken out of the coffin, she would have thought of taking them down to make jewelry.