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 pokazuje kako je pronašao pravo lice Leonarda

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Mona Lisa je jedno od najpoznatijih lica na planetu. Ali biste li prepoznali lice Leonarda da Vincia? Ilustrator Siegfried Woldhek koristi neke tehnike analize slike kako bi otkrio ono što vjeruje da je pravo lice Leonarda.
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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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Dobro jutro.
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Let's look for a minuteminuta at the greatestnajveći iconikona of all, LeonardoLeonardo dada VinciVinci.
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Pogledajmo na minutu najveću ikonu od svih, Leonarda da Vincia.
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We're all familiarupoznat with his fantasticfantastičan work --
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Svi smo upoznati sa njegovim fantastičnim radom –
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his drawingscrteži, his paintingsslike, his inventionsizumi, his writingsspisi.
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njegovim crtežima, slikama, izumima, pisanim djelima.
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But we do not know his facelice.
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Ali ne znamo njegovo lice.
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ThousandsTisuće of booksknjige have been writtennapisan about him,
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Tisuće knjiga su napisane o njemu,
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but there's controversypolemika, and it remainsostaci, about his looksizgled.
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ali postoji kontroverza oko njegovog izgleda.
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Even this well-knowndobro poznati portraitportret is not acceptedpriznat by manymnogi artumjetnost historianspovjesničari.
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Čak i ovaj dobro poznat portret nije prihvaćen od strane mnogih povjesničara umjetnosti.
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So, what do you think?
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Što vi mislite?
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Is this the facelice of LeonardoLeonardo dada VinciVinci or isn't it?
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Je li ovo lice Leonarda da Vincia ili nije?
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Let's find out.
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Saznajmo.
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LeonardoLeonardo was a man that drewnacrtati everything around him.
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Leonardo je crtao sve oko sebe.
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He drewnacrtati people, anatomyanatomija, plantsbilje, animalsživotinje, landscapeskrajolici, buildingsgrađevine, watervoda, everything.
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Crtao je ljude, anatomiju, biljke, životinje, pejzaže, zgrade, vodu, sve.
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But no faceslica?
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Ali lica?
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I find that hardteško to believe.
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To ne vjerujem.
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His contemporariessuvremenici madenapravljen faceslica, like the onesone you see here --
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Njegovi suvremenici su crtali lica, kao ove što vidite ovdje.
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enhr facelice or three-quarterstri četvrtine.
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En face ili tri četvrtine.
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So, surelysigurno a passionatestrasan drawercrtač like LeonardoLeonardo
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Strastveni crtač kao što je Leonardo
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mustmora have madenapravljen self-portraitsautoportreti from time to time.
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morao je napraviti autoportrete s vremena na vrijeme.
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So let's try to find them.
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Pokušajmo ih pronaći.
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I think that if we were to scanskenirati all of his work
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Ako skeniramo sva njegova djela
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and look for self-portraitsautoportreti, we would find his facelice looking at us.
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djela i potražimo autoportrete, naći ćemo njegovo lice kako nas gleda.
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So I lookedgledao at all of his drawingscrteži, more than 700,
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Pogledao sam sve njegove crteže, više od 700,
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and lookedgledao for malemuški portraitsportreti.
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i tražio portrete muškaraca.
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There are about 120, you see them here.
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Ima ih oko 120, vidite ih ovdje.
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WhichKoji onesone of these could be self-portraitsautoportreti?
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Koji od ovih bi mogli biti autoportreti?
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Well, for that they have to be doneučinio as we just saw, enhr facelice or three-quarterstri četvrtine.
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Moraju biti napravljeni en face ili tri četvrtine.
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So we can eliminateeliminirati all the profilesprofili.
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Možemo ukloniti sve profile.
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It alsotakođer has to be sufficientlydovoljno detaileddetaljne.
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Također mora biti dovoljno detaljno.
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So we can alsotakođer eliminateeliminirati the onesone that are very vaguenejasan or very stylizedstilizirani.
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Možemo ukloniti i one koje su vrlo nejasni ili vrlo stilizirani.
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And we know from his contemporariessuvremenici
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Od njegovih suvremenika znamo
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that LeonardoLeonardo was a very handsomezgodan, even beautifullijep man.
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da je Leonardo bio zgodan, čak lijep muškarac.
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So we can alsotakođer eliminateeliminirati the uglyružan onesone or the caricatureskarikature.
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Možemo također ukloniti ružne slike ili karikature.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(smijeh)
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And look what happensdogađa se -- only threetri candidateskandidata remainostati that fitodgovara the billračun.
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Gledajte što se dogodilo – ostala su samo tri kandidata koja odgovaraju.
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And here they are.
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Evo ih.
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Yes, indeeddoista, the oldstar man is there,
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Istina, starac je ovdje,
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as is this famouspoznat penpero drawingcrtanje of the HomoHomo VitruvianusVitruvianus.
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kao i ovaj poznati crtež Homo Vitruvianos.
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And lastlyposljednje, the only portraitportret of a malemuški that LeonardoLeonardo paintedobojen, "The MusicianGlazbenik."
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Posljednji, jedini portret muškarca kojeg je Leonardo naslikao, “Glazbenik.”
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Before we go into these faceslica,
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Prije nego što analiziramo slike,
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I should explainobjasniti why I have some right to talk about them.
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trebao bih objasniti zašto imam pravo pričati o njima.
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I've madenapravljen more than 1,100 portraitsportreti myselfsebe
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Napravio sam 1100 portreta za novine,
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for newspapersnovine, over the coursenaravno of 300 -- 30 yearsgodina, sorry, 30 yearsgodina only.
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kroz 300 – 30 godina, oprostite, kroz samo 30 godina.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(smijeh)
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But there are 1,100, and very fewnekoliko artistsizvođači have drawnnacrtan so manymnogi faceslica.
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Ali jako malo umjetnika je nacrtalo 1100 portreta.
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So I know a little about drawingcrtanje and analyzingAnalizirajući faceslica.
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Tako da znam ponešto o crtanju i analiziranju lica.
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OK, now let's look at these threetri portraitsportreti.
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OK, pogledajmo ova tri portreta.
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And holddržati ontona your seatssjedala, because if we zoomzum in on those faceslica,
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Držite se za sjedala, jer ako zumiramo ova lica,
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remarknapomena how they have the sameisti broadširok foreheadčelo, the horizontalvodoravan eyebrowsobrve,
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primijetite kako svi imaju široko čelo, horizontalne obrve,
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the long nosenos, the curvedzakrivljena lipsusne and the smallmali, well-developeddobro razvijene chinBrada.
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dugačak nos, zakrivljene usne, i malu, dobro razvijenu bradu.
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I couldn'tne mogu believe my eyesoči when I first saw that.
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Nisam mogao vjerovati kada sam prvi put vidio.
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There is no reasonrazlog why these portraitsportreti should look alikeslično.
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Nema razloga zašto bi ovi portreti trebali sličiti.
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All we did was look for portraitsportreti that had the characteristicskarakteristike of a self-portraitautoportret,
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Sve što smo učinili jest da smo gledali portrete koji imaju karakteristike autoportreta,
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and look, they are very similarsličan.
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pogledajte, jako su slični.
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Now, are they madenapravljen in the right ordernarudžba?
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Ali jesu li napravljeni po pravilnom redoslijedu?
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The youngmladi man should be madenapravljen first.
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Mladić bi trebao biti prvi napravljen.
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And as you see here from the yearsgodina that they were createdstvorio,
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Kao što vidite ovdje, po godinama u kojima su napravljene,
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it is indeeddoista the casespis.
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doista je tako.
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They are madenapravljen in the right ordernarudžba.
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Napravljene su po pravilnom redoslijedu.
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What was the agedob of LeonardoLeonardo at the time? Does that fitodgovara?
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Koliko je godina Leonardo imao tada? Odgovara li to?
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Yes, it does. He was 33, 38 and 63 when these were madenapravljen.
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Odgovara. Imao je 33, 38 i 63 kada su te slike napravljene.
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So we have threetri picturesSlike, potentiallypotencijalno of the sameisti personosoba
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Imamo tri slike, potencijalno od iste osobe
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of the sameisti agedob as LeonardoLeonardo at the time.
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istih godina kao Leonardo tada.
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But how do we know it's him, and not someonenetko elsedrugo?
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Ali kako znamo da je to on, a ne netko drugi?
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Well, we need a referenceupućivanje.
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Trebamo nagovještaj.
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And here'sevo the only pictureslika of LeonardoLeonardo that's widelyširoko acceptedpriznat.
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Ovo je jedina slika Leonarda koja je široko prihvaćena.
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It's a statuekip madenapravljen by VerrocchioVerrocchio, of DavidDavid,
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Verrocchio je napravio taj kip Davida,
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for whichkoji LeonardoLeonardo posedpredstavljaju as a boydječak of 15.
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kojeg je Leonardo pozirao kao petnaestogodišnji dečko.
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And if we now compareusporediti the facelice of the statuekip,
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Usporedimo li lice kipa
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with the facelice of the musicianglazbenik, you see the very sameisti featuresznačajke again.
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sa licem glazbenika, opet ćete vidjeti iste osobine.
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The statuekip is the referenceupućivanje, and it connectsspaja the identityidentitet of LeonardoLeonardo
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Kip je nagovještaj i povezuje identitet Leonarda
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to those threetri faceslica.
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sa ta tri lica.
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LadiesDame and gentlemengospoda, this storypriča has not yetjoš been publishedObjavljeno.
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Dame i gospodo, ova priča još nije objavljena.
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It's only properodgovarajuće that you here at TEDTED hearčuti and see it first.
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Ispravno je da ju vi na TED-u prvi čujete i vidite.
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The iconikona of iconsikone finallykonačno has a facelice.
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Ikona svih ikona je napokon dobila lice.
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Here he is: LeonardoLeonardo dada VinciVinci.
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Evo ga – Leonardo da Vinci.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(pljesak)
Translated by Romana Perković
Reviewed by Igor Dobec

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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