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<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the-cws-sexy-leonardo-da-vinci-show-already-has-me-hooked">Leonardo da Vinci’s</a> mother was a slave stolen from present-day Russia, according to new research that will upend Italy’s understanding of its most famous artist.</p>
<p>In another extraordinary twist, Italian historian Carlo Vecce has claimed that she was freed from slavery by da Vinci’s father, who was himself a well-known slave trader.</p>
<p>The humble origins of the mother of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/walter-isaacson-goes-inside-the-most-creative-mind-in-history-leonardo-da-vinci">the great renaissance artist</a> have long been contested by scholars and art historians.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/leonardo-da-vinci-was-actually-the-half-russian-son-of-a-slave-historian">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html --> Karoly Arvai/Reuters
Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was a slave stolen from present-day Russia, according to new research that will upend Italy’s understanding of its most famous artist.
In another extraordinary twist, Italian historian Carlo Vecce has claimed that she was freed from slavery by da Vinci’s father, who was himself a well-known slave trader.
The humble origins of the mother of the great renaissance artist have long been contested by scholars and art historians.