A lock of hair believed to have belonged to Leonardo da Vinci is set to undergo DNA testing, as Italians mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death
A lock of hair believed to have belonged to the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci is set to undergo DNA testing, as Italians mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.
"This historic relic -- a lock of hair -- has long remained hidden in an American collection," Vezzosi added."It will now be exposed for the first time, along with documents attesting its ancient French provenance." French poet Arsène Houssaye later discovered what he believed to be Leonardo's bones while excavating the site of the Chapel of Saint-Florentin in 1863, and the bones were reinterred at the Chapel of Saint-Hubert, also located at the Château d'Amboise.
While the researchers found no descendants of the artist himself, as he is believed to have had no children during his lifetime, they found a"direct and uninterrupted" line from his half-brother Domenico. Sabato added in the statement:"This relic is what we needed to make our historical research even more solid from a scientific point of view."Vezzosi noted that their research has already revealed many details about Leonardo's grandfather, who was a"merchant in Morocco and Barcelona." Yet he refused to anticipate the results of the upcoming tests and the possible DNA links that they may reveal.
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