{"id":226197,"date":"2010-01-25T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:51:21","slug":"leonardo-da-vinci%e2%80%99s-bones-to-be-dug-up-by-italian-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226197","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Bones to be Dug Up by Italian Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Times<\/a>:\"\"<\/p>\n

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Scientists seeking permission to exhume the remains of Leonardo da Vinci plan to reconstruct his face to discover whether his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is a disguised self-portrait.<\/p>\n

A team from Italy\u2019s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, has asked to open the tomb in which the Renaissance painter and polymath is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, where he died in 1519, aged 67.<\/p>\n

Giorgio Gruppioni, an anthropologist, said the project could throw new light on Leonardo\u2019s most famous work. \u201cIf we manage to find his skull, we could rebuild Leonardo\u2019s face and compare it with the Mona Lisa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The identity of the Mona Lisa has been debated for centuries, with speculation ranging from Leonardo\u2019s mother to Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[Read more at The Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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