ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Siegfried Woldhek - Illustrator
Siegfried Woldhek knows faces -- he's drawn more than 1,100 of them. Using sophisticated image analysis and his own skills as an artist, he's come up with a fascinating discovery about Leonardo Da Vinci.

Why you should listen

The work of illustrator Siegfried Woldhek is a familiar sight in the European press. His witty pen and sharp eye for faces helps him capture political and literary figures in his home country, the Netherlands, and around the world (he estimates he's drawn 1,100 faces). He's also an accomplished illustrator of nature, and was the longtime CEO of the Dutch branch of the World Wildlife Fund.

Woldhek is the founder of nabuur.com, "the global neighbor network." On nabuur.com, villages in developing communities can connect with volunteers and resources online throughout the world -- sort of a Match.com that pairs communities with the people who'd like to get involved.

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Siegfried Woldhek: The search for the true face of Leonardo

Siegfried Woldhek o tem, kako je našel pravi obraz Leonarda

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Mona Lisa je eden najbolj znanih obrazov na tem planetu. Pa bi vi prepoznali podobo Leonarda da Vincija? Ilustrator Siegfried Woldhek s premišljeno tehniko analize podob najde obraz, za katerega je prepričan, da je resnično Leonardov.
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Siegfried Woldhek knows faces -- he's drawn more than 1,100 of them. Using sophisticated image analysis and his own skills as an artist, he's come up with a fascinating discovery about Leonardo Da Vinci. Full bio

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Good morningjutro.
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Pozdravljeni.
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Let's look for a minuteminuto at the greatestnajvečji iconikona of all, LeonardoLeonardo dada VinciVinci.
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Vzemimo si nekaj minut za največjo ikono vseh časov, Leonarda da Vincija.
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We're all familiarznano with his fantasticfantastično work --
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Vsi poznamo njegova fantastična dela --
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his drawingsrisbe, his paintingsslike, his inventionsizumi, his writingspisanja.
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risbe, slike, izume, besedila.
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But we do not know his faceobraz.
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Ne poznamo pa njegovega obraza.
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ThousandsTisoč of booksknjige have been writtennapisano about him,
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O njem je napisanih na tisoče knjig,
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but there's controversyPolemika, and it remainsostanki, about his looksizgleda.
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še vedno pa obstaja polemika
glede njegovega videza.
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Even this well-knownznanih portraitportret is not acceptedsprejeta by manyveliko artumetnost historianszgodovinarji.
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Celo tega slavnega portreta
mnogi umetnostni zgodovinarji ne priznavajo.
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So, what do you think?
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Kaj pa vi mislite?
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Is this the faceobraz of LeonardoLeonardo dada VinciVinci or isn't it?
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Je to obraz Leonarda da Vincija ali ni?
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Let's find out.
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Poskusimo ugotoviti.
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LeonardoLeonardo was a man that drewnarisal everything around him.
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Leonardo je bil človek, ki je risal vse okoli sebe.
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He drewnarisal people, anatomyanatomija, plantsrastline, animalsživali, landscapespokrajine, buildingszgradbe, watervoda, everything.
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Risal je ljudi, anatomijo, rastline,
živali, pokrajino, stavbe, vodo, vse.
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But no facesobrazi?
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Vse razen obrazov?
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I find that hardtežko to believe.
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Težko verjamem.
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His contemporariessodobniki madeizdelane facesobrazi, like the onestiste you see here --
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Njegovi sodobniki so delali obraze;
take, kot jih vidite tu --
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enen faceobraz or three-quarterstri četrtine.
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frontalno ali tričetrtinsko.
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So, surelyzagotovo a passionatestrasten drawerpredal like LeonardoLeonardo
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Prav gotovo je strastni risar,
kakršen je bil Leonardo,
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mustmoraš have madeizdelane self-portraitsavtoportrete from time to time.
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od časa do časa naredil kakšen avtoportret.
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So let's try to find them.
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Poskusimo jih najti.
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I think that if we were to scanskeniranje all of his work
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Če bi skenirali njegov celoten opus
in iskali avtoportrete,
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and look for self-portraitsavtoportrete, we would find his faceobraz looking at us.
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bi po mojem mnenju ugotovili,
da imamo Leonardov obraz ves čas pred očmi.
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So I lookedpogledal at all of his drawingsrisbe, more than 700,
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Torej sem preučil vse njegove risbe, več kot 700,
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and lookedpogledal for malemoški portraitsportreti.
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in pri tem iskal moške portrete.
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There are about 120, you see them here.
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Teh je okoli 120, vidite jih tule.
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WhichKi onestiste of these could be self-portraitsavtoportrete?
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Kateri izmed njih bi lahko bili avtoportreti?
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Well, for that they have to be doneKončano as we just saw, enen faceobraz or three-quarterstri četrtine.
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Narisani bi morali biti frontalno ali tričetrtinsko,
kot smo videli prej.
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So we can eliminateodpraviti all the profilesprofili.
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Takoj lahko izločimo vse profile.
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It alsotudi has to be sufficientlydovolj detailedpodrobne.
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Morajo biti tudi dovolj natančni.
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So we can alsotudi eliminateodpraviti the onestiste that are very vaguenejasen or very stylizedstilizirane.
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Tako lahko izločimo portrete,
ki so nerazločni ali zelo stilizirani.
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And we know from his contemporariessodobniki
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Od njegovih sodobnikov vemo,
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that LeonardoLeonardo was a very handsomečeden, even beautifullepo man.
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da je bil Leonardo zelo privlačen in celo lep moški.
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So we can alsotudi eliminateodpraviti the uglygrdo onestiste or the caricatureskarikature.
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Zato lahko izločimo portrete grdih moških in karikature.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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And look what happensse zgodi -- only threetri candidateskandidatov remainostanejo that fitfit the billračun.
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Poglejte, kaj se je zgodilo --
samo 3 kandidati ustrezajo vsem pogojem.
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And here they are.
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In tukaj so.
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Yes, indeedprav zares, the oldstar man is there,
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Res je, starec je ostal,
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as is this famousslavni penpero drawingrisanje of the HomoHomo VitruvianusVitruvianus.
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prav tako njegov slavni "Vitruvijanski človek".
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And lastlynazadnje, the only portraitportret of a malemoški that LeonardoLeonardo paintednaslikal, "The MusicianGlasbenik."
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In nazadnje, edini portret moškega,
ki ga je Leonardo kdaj narisal - "Glasbenik".
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Before we go into these facesobrazi,
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Preden se jim posvetimo,
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I should explainpojasnite why I have some right to talk about them.
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moram razložiti,
od kod imam pravico o njih govoriti.
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I've madeizdelane more than 1,100 portraitsportreti myselfjaz
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Narisal sem že več kot 1.100 avtoportretov
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for newspapersčasopisi, over the courseseveda of 300 -- 30 yearslet, sorry, 30 yearslet only.
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za časopise, in to tekom 300 -- 30 let.
Oprostite, samo tekom 30 let.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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But there are 1,100, and very fewmalo artistsumetniki have drawnpripravljen so manyveliko facesobrazi.
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Jih je pa 1.100
in malo umetnikov je narisalo toliko obrazov.
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So I know a little about drawingrisanje and analyzinganaliziranje facesobrazi.
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Zato nekaj vem o risanju in analizi obrazov.
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OK, now let's look at these threetri portraitsportreti.
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Tako, zdaj pa poglejmo tiste tri portrete.
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And holddržite ontona your seatssedeži, because if we zoomzoom in on those facesobrazi,
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Primite se za sedeže,
saj ko zumiramo njihove obraze,
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remarkpripombe how they have the sameenako broadširok foreheadčelo, the horizontalhorizontalno eyebrowsobrvi,
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opazimo, da imajo isto široko čelo,
vodoravne obrvi,
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the long nosenos, the curvedukrivljena lipsustnice and the smallmajhna, well-developeddobro razvit chinbrado.
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dolg nos, ukrivljene ustnice
in majhno dobro razvito brado.
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I couldn'tni mogel believe my eyesoči when I first saw that.
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Ko sem to prvič opazil,
nisem mogel verjeti svojim očem.
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There is no reasonrazlog why these portraitsportreti should look alikepodobno.
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Nobenega razloga ni,
da bi si ti portreti morali biti podobni.
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All we did was look for portraitsportreti that had the characteristicsznačilnosti of a self-portraitavtoportret,
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Mi smo zgolj iskali portrete z značilnostmi avtoportreta
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and look, they are very similarpodobno.
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in glejte, zelo so si podobni.
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Now, are they madeizdelane in the right orderred?
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Pa so narejeni v pravem časovnem zaporedju?
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The youngmladi man should be madeizdelane first.
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Mladi moški bi moral biti narisan prvi.
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And as you see here from the yearslet that they were createdustvarjeno,
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Kot vidite iz letnic, v katerih je bil ustvarjen,
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it is indeedprav zares the caseprimera.
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je temu res tako.
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They are madeizdelane in the right orderred.
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Narisani so v pravem časovnem zaporedju.
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What was the agestarost of LeonardoLeonardo at the time? Does that fitfit?
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Koliko je bil v tistem času star Leonardo?
Se to ujema?
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Yes, it does. He was 33, 38 and 63 when these were madeizdelane.
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Se. Star je bil 33, 38 in 63 let,
ko je ustvaril te tri portrete.
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So we have threetri picturesslike, potentiallypotencialno of the sameenako personoseba
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Imamo torej 3 slike,
na katerih je potencialno ista oseba
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of the sameenako agestarost as LeonardoLeonardo at the time.
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in je stara enako kot Leonardo v tistem času.
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But how do we know it's him, and not someonenekdo elsedrugače?
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A kako vemo, da je to on in ne nekdo drug?
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Well, we need a referencereferenca.
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Potrebujemo primerjavo.
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And here'sTukaj je the only pictureslika of LeonardoLeonardo that's widelyširoko acceptedsprejeta.
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Tule vidite edino sliko Leonarda,
ki je splošno priznana.
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It's a statuekip madeizdelane by VerrocchioVerrocchio, of DavidDavid,
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Gre za kip Davida, ki ga je ustvaril Verrocchio,
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for whichki LeonardoLeonardo posedpredstavljajo as a boyfant of 15.
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in za katerega je pri 15-ih poziral Leonardo.
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And if we now compareprimerjati the faceobraz of the statuekip,
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In če zdaj primerjamo obraz na kipu
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with the faceobraz of the musicianglasbenik, you see the very sameenako featuresLastnosti again.
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z obrazom glasbenika,
spet vidimo, da gre za povsem iste poteze.
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The statuekip is the referencereferenca, and it connectspovezuje the identityidentiteta of LeonardoLeonardo
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Kip služi kot primerjava
in povezuje identiteto Leonarda
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to those threetri facesobrazi.
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z našimi tremi obrazi.
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LadiesDame and gentlemengospodje, this storyzgodba has not yetše been publishedobjavljeno.
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Dame in gospodje,
ta zgodba še ni bila objavljena.
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It's only properpravilno that you here at TEDTED hearslišite and see it first.
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Edino primerno je, da jo ravno vi tu
na dogodku TED slišite in vidite prvi.
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The iconikona of iconsikone finallykončno has a faceobraz.
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Ikona vseh ikon je končno dobila svoj obraz.
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Here he is: LeonardoLeonardo dada VinciVinci.
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In tule je: Leonardo da Vinci.
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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Translated by Polonca Štritof
Reviewed by Sara Tanjga

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Siegfried Woldhek - Illustrator
Siegfried Woldhek knows faces -- he's drawn more than 1,100 of them. Using sophisticated image analysis and his own skills as an artist, he's come up with a fascinating discovery about Leonardo Da Vinci.

Why you should listen

The work of illustrator Siegfried Woldhek is a familiar sight in the European press. His witty pen and sharp eye for faces helps him capture political and literary figures in his home country, the Netherlands, and around the world (he estimates he's drawn 1,100 faces). He's also an accomplished illustrator of nature, and was the longtime CEO of the Dutch branch of the World Wildlife Fund.

Woldhek is the founder of nabuur.com, "the global neighbor network." On nabuur.com, villages in developing communities can connect with volunteers and resources online throughout the world -- sort of a Match.com that pairs communities with the people who'd like to get involved.

More profile about the speaker
Siegfried Woldhek | Speaker | TED.com