Ser Piero da Vinci went on to father more than 17 children over the course of his life, the last when Leonardo was more than 40 years of age. However when he returned to his hometown, he met Caterina. Ser Piero da Vinci, by contrast, was a lawyer in Florence who was on the path to success.
Caterina was an orphan, and after the death of her parents, she lived with her grandmother and 2-year-old brother, Papo.Īccording to Pallanti and Kemp, Caterina’s grandmother died before 1451, and the two children then relied in their uncle for support, who lived next door. As per Martin Kemp and art researcher Giuseppe Pallanti, the mother of Leonardo was a 15-year-old girl who lived in a farmhouse just a mile away from Vinci. But the research of Martin Kemp has finally uncovered the plain truth of the identity of the great artist’s mother.Ĭaterina was a teenage girl when she met Ser Piero da Vinci who was at that time 25 years old. Previously, several scholars claimed that Caterina was not Italian, and was actually a slave who came from North Africa, Turkey, or even further afield. Sadly there was not much more information about the elusive Caterina, which allowed for plenty of speculation over the years. Leonardo da Vinci ( Georgios Kollidas / Adobe Stock) There it appears he met Leonardo’s mother, Caterina, who gave birth to the baby Leonardo, a man who would grow up to change the world. Leonardo da Vinci’s father, Ser Piero da Vinci, was a young notary working in Florence, who had recently returned to his hometown of Vinci, near the Tuscan hills. Several more pieces of information have been uncovered.
After in-depth research into a lady named Caterina di Meo Lippi, the da Vinci expert Martin Kemp, Professor of Art History at Oxford University, believes that the famous artist was born to her on Apwhen she was just 15 years old. But now, a scholar has claimed that he found the woman behind the Italian Renaissance man. The real identity of da Vinci’s mother has always been shrouded in mystery, with historians remaining confused about Leonardo da Vinci’s maternal family.
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