Posted on 12/26/2017 2:47:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An Oxford University researcher... an art historian at Britain's Oxford University has claimed that the full name of Leonardo da Vinci's mother was Caterina di Meo Lippi. Professor Martin Kemp said Caterina was a poor peasant, probably an orphan, living with her grandmother in a decrepit farmhouse about a mile from Vinci in the Italian Tuscan hills, The Times reported.
The name emerged from previously overlooked archives in Florence and Vinci, including property tax records, Mr Kemp said. Caterina's father disappeared when she was young, leaving her to be brought up by her grandmother.
In 1451, when Caterina was 15, she became pregnant by Ser Piero da Vinci, 25, a lawyer working in Florence, Mr Kemp said...
Ser Piero da Vinci was anyway due to get married, and Caterina was married off to Antonio di Piero Buti, a farmer.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452, and brought up in the house of Ser Piero da Vinci's father. Mr Kemp said he believes Leonardo da Vinci was not born in Casa Natale in Anchiano, but in the house of his paternal grandfather in Vinci.
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My wife and I recently went to Milan and Florence to see the newly restored Last Supper and the Uffizi Gallery. The Last Supper was better than we expected it to be because they only allow you 20 minutes, but the groups were small and the lighting was good so you could take as many pictures as you wanted without crowds blocking your view.
The unexpected treat was at the Uffizi, where we were lucky enough to be there for the opening of the exhibition of Da Vinci’s unfinished masterpiece Adoration of the Magi. Because it was one of the last exhibits at the Gallery, if you started at the back like we did you had the exhibit to yourself. A very nice vacation.
Sounds great!
And Popes.
the NEHGS estimated that the last of the Plantagenet kings of England has over a million descendants in the US alone — and that his father has over ten million. :^)
The only one I’ve seen in person is “Ginevra de Benci”, which is in the National Gallery in DC, and I believe the only painting of his on public display west of the Atlantic. It’s one of the very few he completed, and oddly is painted on both sides (both sides are displayed).
:^D
Lol. Wonder if those descendants have claims.
One of the Edwards is in my family tree. All you get is bragging rights about someone nobody remembers ;-)
Being frugal with the canvas? LOL.
I had a poster of the Annunciation. That’s it for me. My parents gave me a book of his life story and paintings while in college.
I admired him and his quest for scientific discovery and his dedication. A true scientist.
We only know because of an aunt who was obsessed with this stuff, and spent half her life tromping through graveyards and reading old church records. If she had survived to see the Internet, she would have been delighted.
Hey, maybe no one has ever checked the backs of this other paintings. :^)
He is known to have recycled canvasses, otherwise unknown work lying beneath his and those of some of his proteges. Y’know, if memory serves.
Today her lover would have forced her to have an abortion. No Leonardo Da Vinci. Wonder how many artists, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, writers etc. have been killed before they were born since 1973.
You had to be born in wedlock and a bunch of other blah, blah, blah.
Besides to claim the throne you would have to be a "legitimate Protestant descendant of Sophia of Hanover that are in "communion with the Church of England".
Of course, Parliament could write a new bill but they probably won't.
“last of the Plantagenet kings of England has over a million descendants in the US alone — and that his father has over ten million. :^)”
I’ve read that it’s estimated that every 5th male on earth is descended from Genghis Khan.
Busy man.
L
Why do her hands and fingers look puffy? Unusual for a young person.
the Plantagenet estimate is based on documents, the Genghis Khan estimate is just one of many possible guesses. My view is, if there really is a common DNA trace, it could literally be anyone, and is actually more likely to be some anonymous barbarian vagabond and/or undocumented immigrant from the steppe — or even some Central Asian ancestor who never left Central Asia but who had descendants who did.
Niall of the Nine Hostages likewise perhaps shows up in common DNA traces among (mostly) Irish-descent people, yet he’s otherwise known only from legend. Like Genghis Khan, there are no physical remains from which DNA could be extracted.
I’d guess that Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, and other famous Roman generals sowed wild oats all over Europe and the Med basin. JC’s troops used to sing a “lock up your wives and daughters” type song they’d sing on the way into a town. But think of all the literally millions of Roman soldiers who probably did pretty well wherever they went. And the slave women who were constantly available around the finer homes throughout the empire... trying to nail down (sorry) the exact source could prove to be problematical.
Thanks.
L
“’Nice summer’s evening probably in the fields — and that was it’, said Dr Kemp.”
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