This might sound like a claim from a Chinese art historian, but actually, an Italian historian based in Hong Kong is behind the claim that Leonardo Da Vinci’s mother, the alleged subject of the Mona Lisa, was a Chinese slave. What?!
He hasn’t just made a claim, but he has even written a book about it which will be published next year; Leonardo Da Vinci: A Chinese scholar lost in Renaissance in Italy.
The novelist and historian Angelo Paratico has highlighted a bunch of facts in the book to support his claims that Da Vinci had Chinese ancestry including the fact that he writes from left to right, and was a vegetarian.
Source: SCMP
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Keywords: Italian Historian Claims Mona Lisa Chinese Slave
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Gavin Menzies' literary agent describes him as an author: "He has fantastic ideas, but he's not an academic, and he's not a natural writer”. He didn't even write 1421. He had a ghost writer to help him with the hard bits. It's not referenced or fact-checked. You can't tell the difference between fact and fiction. Back to school with you.
Dec 09, 2014 19:35 Report Abuse
Actually entirely feasible if you read the book "1434" by Gavin Menzies. It is about how China sparked the Renaissance period in Europe by sending a fleet to Italy with a lot of Chinese inventions and libraries. Many of the art and inventions attributed to Da Vinci were actually copies of Chinese things that existed long before. These fleets always carried lots of concubines and "slaves", so it is possible that some were left behind.
Dec 04, 2014 17:06 Report Abuse
Don't think so. Stop taking credit for other people's genius and inventions. It just makes foreigners laugh.
Dec 05, 2014 11:57 Report Abuse
Menzies is right on. No European likes to admit that though.
Dec 08, 2014 20:19 Report Abuse
Obviously this loser is trying to create "buzz" among the Chinese circles for whatever reason(s). Hey, Im Italian-American...let me create some buzzzzz tooo! "Italian-American Scholar Claims Mona Lisa MIGHT HAVE BEEN a humanoid alien from a planet orbiting the Sirius Star System ".
Dec 04, 2014 15:14 Report Abuse
Since when is vegetarianism an indicator of Chinese ethnicity? These people eat meat with every meal, providing they can afford it. And there's no way Mona is Chinese. If anything, she looks Filipino.
Dec 03, 2014 18:53 Report Abuse
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