The daffodil code: doubts revived over Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks in London

Experts say London version of painter’s Madonna masterpiece has fake flowers and ‘misses the point geologically’Leonardo da Vinci always impressed on his students the importance of depicting nature accurately. He wrote: “Painter, you should know that you cannot be good if you are not a master universal enough to imitate with your art every kind of natural form.” Indeed, his own paintings and drawings of the natural world are as scientifically accurate as they are beautiful.Five centuri