Vitruvian Man. Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images.
Historians dedicated to tracing Leonardo da Vinci’s family tree have uncovered 14 living relatives of the Renaissance great in a project that has been in the works for nearly a decade.
While Leonardo himself had no children, he had 22 half-brothers, thanks to his rather prolific father, Piero.
Hoping to learn more about the artist through his family, researchers Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Ideale Leonardo da Vinci Museum, and Agnese Sabato, president of the Leonardo da Vinci Heritage Foundation, have scoured genealogical records over 21 generations.
Their study, published in the journal
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