OK.
You make a valid point.
I was only going on my limited reading of their relationship.
Too limited, perhaps, I confess!
It seems that Leonardo willed all his works to ‘Salai,’ rather than his brothers when he died, though, so that seemed suspicious. As does Salai’s continued presence through all his travels. But maybe artists do that, or did then.
I don’t care. Leonardo’s art is all that matters.
Of course, in those days, there was only sodomy and no concept of homosexuality or shacking up and going on shopping trips to Home Depot, lol, as some of our dumber gay brethren believe. I’ll have to check on Salai getting Leonardo’s stuff; he wasn’t particularly close to his father’s family and for fairly good reason. The artist was quite poor at the end and I’m not sure how much he had to leave his pesky and annoying friend - I do know he didn’t take him to France at the end of his life. Salai was used as a model as was Leonardo as a youth. That was part of the concept of the atelier. There was an emphasis on male beauty at the time but that may or may not have anything to do with homosexuality.