LEONARDO DA VINCI EASTERN DIMENSION
Baku, November 23 (AZERTAC). Christianity`s greatest-known Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci, may actually have been born of a Muslim mother who hailed from the Azerbaijan region. That was the theory explored in a lecture at Canada`s National Library and Archives organized by the embassies of Azerbaijan and Turkey jointly. Da Vinci researcher Louis Buff Parry presented considerable evidence, including partial fingerprint analysis of the master, suggesting that Da Vinci`s mother was actually brought to Italy as a slave. Da Vinci`s mother was a peasant called Caterina, the most common name given to slaves from Asia marketed in Constantinople (now Istanbul). Da Vinci`s father was notary Piero Fruosina. The two never married. Researchers are still seeking Caterina`s bill of sale, the most conclusive proof of maternal origins in Azerbaijan, a country bridging Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Parry presented considerable material in a lecture entitled “The Eastern Mysteries of Leonardo Da Vinci and His Mother, Caterina”. Background documents included a copy of a 1503 letter to Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II written by DaVinci in Osmanli- Persian-Arabic script. Artist Da Vinci was also a scientist, mathematician, architect, botanist, musician and writer, the epitome of a Renaissance man. Some believe him to be the greatest painter of all time, with world recognition of his Mona Lisa and Last Supper. Da Vinci is believed to have visited his mother`s birthplace, where he sketched the Euphrates River headwaters juxtaposed with some Taurus mountain peaks. In one of Da Vinci`s notes for a letter to the Sultan Bayezid`s Minister of Finance, the painter also suggests he would write the Islamic confession of faith. Research into the origins of Christianity’s most famous Renaissance figure continues.
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