[SunkenCiv]

"Vitruvian Man", by Leonardo da Vinci. This work done by the artist is used to illustrate the cover of the special issue of Human Evolution that features the Leonardo Project. Wikimedia Commons

[Jeff Chandler]

the iconic Mona Lisa

My favorite interpretation is that of Rick Meyerowitz:

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Mona Gorilla

[miss marmelstein]

The finding of Richard has led to this kind of finding frenzy. We already know what Leonardo looked like. We have many very good cartoons and paintings of him - he was a model as a youth, after all, and drew himself on occasion.

[Neoliberalnot]

That was a fascinating time that also spawned Michealangelo Buonarotti, another brilliant sculptor, architect, and painter of the Sistine Chapel, and chief architect of St. Peter’s Church. The Italians produced some brilliant people just as much of Europe.

[wideminded]

"In the normal course of events many men and women are born with various remarkable qualities and talents; but occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, a single person is marvellously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace, and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, and indeed everything he does clearly come from God rather than from human art."

"Everyone acknowledged that this was true of Leonardo da Vinci, an artist of outstanding physical beauty who displayed infinite grace in everything he did and who cultivated his genius so brilliantly that all problems he studied he solved with ease. He possessed great strength and dexterity; he was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind ..."

- Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists

[Rum Tum Tugger]

The idea behind the Project, founded in 2014, has inspired and united anthropologists, art historians, genealogists, microbiologists, and other experts from leading universities and institutes in France, Italy, Spain, Canada and the USA, including specialists from the J. Craig Venter Institute of California, which pioneered the sequencing of the human genome.

Can there be any doubt that the Project will conclude that Leonardo was a transgender, African Jew?

[Larry Lucido]

Born in Vinci,

I knew that! :-)

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[FredZarguna]

He was so far ahead of his time that he predicted there would be no cure for the Summertime Blues over five centuries before Pete Townshend (or even Eddie Cochran.)

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