Reconstructing Da Vinci's Work

Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of 16-year-old Ginevra de' Benci is on display at Washington's National Gallery of Art.

The gallery's top expert of the period, David Allen Brown, has published a book Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius.

In it, Brown details how he and the gallery staff recreated the bottom one-third section of the painting, which had been destroyed.

A computer, an infrared thermal imaging camera and a drawing from Britain's Windsor Castle were used to recreate the missing area.

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