text: As a result of the painstaking centimeter-by-centimeter recovery of the fragmentary but still powerful traces of the real Leonardo , we can now see , for example , that Philip ( third to the right ) has an expression of acute grief rather than the simpering pathos left by restorers who presumed to improve on the original .
  
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  The recovery of the work of the real Leonardo has unveiled new insights on the attitudes of the characters depicted .