I'm Curious, So let me dig up your grave......

[SMACKDAB]

You know...what drew my attention to this story, is the plain and simple fact that these people, want to dig up this mans grave for the sole purpose of easing someone's curiosity.

This sh!t is just stupid, and not only that, it shouldn't be allowed in my opinion....but what do I know? I don't go around petitioning to dig up peoples graves because I want to know if he was gay, or it was really him, his mother, his lover, in a picture he painted or not.

I guarantee you someone's art collection is going up in value as we speak, and probably will be the first one on site at the upheaval of this mans corpse.

Let sleeping dogs lay.

Yeah.....America isn't the only Country that doesn't respect boundaries anymore. Imagine the amount of money being dedicated to this, with the shape this world is in.

Nonsense...........pure nonsense.

January 24, 2010

Leonardo da Vinci's bones to be dug up by Italian scientists

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.

A team from Italy’s 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.

Giorgio Gruppioni, an anthropologist, said the project could throw new light on Leonardo’s most famous work. “If we manage to find his skull, we could rebuild Leonardo’s face and compare it with the Mona Lisa,” he said.

The identity of the Mona Lisa has been debated for centuries, with speculation ranging from Leonardo’s mother to Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant.

Some scholars have suggested that Leonardo’s presumed homosexuality and love of riddles led him to paint himself as a woman.

Recreating Leonardo’s face could test the theory of Lillian Schwartz, an American expert who drew on computer studies to highlight apparent similarities between the features of the Mona Lisa and those of a self-portrait by the artist.

Talks about the exhumation with French cultural officials and the owners of the chateau have resulted in an agreement in principle, according to the Italian team, and the project could receive formal permission this summer.

The church in which Leonardo was buried was destroyed after the French revolution of 1789. The remains were reburied in the castle’s smaller chapel of Saint-Hubert in 1874, beneath an inscription that describes them as “presumed” to be the master’s......

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6999931.ece

[The Link]

Would there even be anything left? You would think that he would be decomposed by now.

[Happy Panther]

probably going to make him cut his hair too

[SMACKDAB]

probably going to make him cut his hair too

Not if I can help it, or before I buzz off yours.

[Happy Panther]

Jokes on you. I'm hairless already.

[frash.exe]

they may find nothing

after a while even bones disintegrate into just dust

[Jangler]

de Vinci is not dead. I saw it on an episode of Star Trek....Original Timeline. So the joke is on them.