Leonardo DaVinci may have been Arab
This story is very cool, not because Leonardo might have had Arab blood, but because of the fantastically meticulous research that has gone into it. Going through over 200 partial fingerprint samples from DaVinci’s paintings, finally finding the most complete one in ‘Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine’ (pictured on the right) and matching with other ones from manuscript.
In the case of Leonardo’s fingertip, patterns and ridges pointed to the Middle East, the researchers concluded.
“The fingerprint features patterns such as the central whorl that are dominant in the Middle East. About 60 percent of the Middle Eastern population display the same dermatoglyphic structure found in the fingerprint,” Capasso said.
The discovery would support Vezzosi’s claim that Leonardo’s mother was not a local peasant girl as previously thought, but a Middle Eastern slave.
According to Vezzosi, records unearthed in Vinci offer substantial evidence that Leonardo’s father, a craftsman called Ser Piero Da Vinci, owned a Middle-Eastern female slave named Caterina.
“It was common in 15th century Tuscany to own slaves from the Middle East,” said Vezzosi.
Indeed, in 1452, the same year of Leonardo’s birth, a law was passed in Florence that gave slave owners greater rights over their slaves.
Shortly after the law was passed, Ser Piero married Caterina off to one of his workers. The woman had just given birth to a boy called Leonardo.
Droit de seigneur?
[Thanks to Hisham for the link.]
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New da Vinci Invention Surfaces, Michael W. Domoretsky’s Discovery,†The Perpendicular Reverse Mirror Image†And Optical Illusion/Bending Of Light, Seems To Have Weight, Very Much Weight, On A Newly Discovered Leonardo da Vinci Invention, That Sparks New Theory’s On Encrypted Images Discovered Within Masterpieces By Domoretsky.
â€Leonardo da Vinci†As usual, as is our experience, repeated time and time again, renowned art critics and professed art experts, such as Vittorio Scarbi and many others, base their opinions on accepted art world and art education precepts looking at daVinci’s works as artists not scientists or inventor. We on the other hand think you will be quite intrigued and fascinated with the reverse perpendicular mirror image process and the bending of light / optical illusion, that Leonardo was quite familiar with, invented, and more likely as we have discovered, practiced in perfecting this process within his masterpieces.
As always it is difficult to persuade experts professing established thought in any field to consider new, alternate or previously UN accepted ideas. But then the experts thought the world was flat for centuries. Links to the processes discovered.
We welcome comments by interested parties and will post appropriate.
http://www.lionardofromvinci.com 2005~2007
Advance and the Secret of the Mona Lisa, article by: ThothWeb, http://www.thothweb.com/article-4011–0-0.html Mirror image, http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/mirrorimage.html
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the infant St. John, mirror image, http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/Mona.htmlContact, http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/contact.html
The da Vinci Project
Managing Director, Michael W. Domoretsky
Director: M. Graham Noll
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that’s interesting…. I wonder if it’s true or not, but either ways, I think it will all turn to just theories,,,