Egmond Codfried
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| fwsweet wrote: |
Unless you have something to add beyond your claim that Euro arstocracy was of subsaharan appearance, based on non-replicable evidence, I would like to consider the topic closed. |
[Mona Lisa; thought to be a preliminary sketch to the famous Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum. I see Black skin, compared to the whitened portrait we all know]
I would like to ad a recent article, reported by different media, about Leonardo da Vinci's Arab ancestry. To me, studiying his portraits, his works, his contacts and being part of the elite; I consider him part of the fixed mulattorace that came into power with the Renaissance
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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.
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fwsweet
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| Posted: Fri 25 Jul 2008 15:21 Post subject: |
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| I would really like to have a citation to the original study. I do not believe that any reputable scholar would anachronistically label someone who has been dead for nearly five centuries, with a modern-day geo-political label, merely on the basis of partial fingerprints. |
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