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Post by linsi on May 19, 2006 1:03:01 GMT 10
Mona Lisa
Some people feel that it is a self portrait of Leo himself
www.montana.edu/4teachers/instcomp/hunts/art/owens/monalisa.html
www.crystalinks.com/leonardodevinci.html
The very timely Da Vinci's Code movie drove me to read about Leonardo Da Vinci, and this is what i saw.
Leonardo appears to never have had intimate relations with women. In 1476 he was anonymously accused of homosexual contact with a 17-year-old model, Jacopo Saltarelli, a notorious prostitute. He was, together with three other young men, charged with homosexual conduct and acquitted because of lack of evidence. For a time Leonardo and the others were under the watchful eye of Florence's "Officers of the Night" - a kind of Renaissance vice squad.
According to Robert Payne, a biographer of Leonardo, believes that he loved women and men equally. Most modern scholars believe that one of Leonardo's lovers was Salai, A.K.A., Gian Giacomo Caprotti. Salai was Leonardo's servant and assistant.
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Post by linsi on May 19, 2006 1:12:01 GMT 10
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Post by linsi on May 19, 2006 1:22:54 GMT 10
That Leonardo was homosexual is generally accepted. His longest-running relationship was with a beautiful delinquent Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, whom he nicknamed Salai (Little Devil), who entered his household at the age of 10. Leonardo supported Salai for twenty five years, and he left Salai half his vineyard in his will.
open-encyclopedia.com/Leonardo_da_Vinci
He died in Cloux, France in 1519 [5]. According to his wish, 60 beggars followed his casket. He was buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in the castle of Amboise.
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Post by migy on May 19, 2006 2:14:35 GMT 10
the moment i've seen the title, for me it's not a wholesome show... Forgive me if am being extremely acting like this, just wanted to express my thoughts on said movie...
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