Further into the article.
Mr Vinceti is part of the group asking French authorities for permission to exhume Da Vinci’s remains from his tomb at Amboise Castle in the Loire Valley.
They want to see if the artist’s skull is there so that they can try and recreate his face and establish if the Mona Lisa is a self portrait of the artist, as many people believe.
Some historians believe that Da Vinci was homosexual and that his love of riddles led him to paint himself as a woman.
I wouldn’t find this too hard to believe - I’ve never thought the Mona Lisa looked like a woman
***Mr Vinceti is part of the group asking French authorities for permission to exhume Da Vinci’s remains from his tomb at Amboise Castle in the Loire Valley.***
Thirty eight years ago there was a TV mini-series on the life of Leonardo. It showed that Leonardo’s bones were on display, with other high ranking dead, in a glass coffin, till rioters broke in and destroyed the coffins, tossing all the bones into a common burial pit.