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Mar 15, 2023 · In a 2017 book, Kemp concluded that Leonardo's mother was Caterina di Meo Lippi, an orphan who lived in a farmhouse about a mile from Vinci, the Tuscan village from which Leonardo was born and ...
Mar 15, 2023 · Kemp unearthed documentary evidence that a young girl of that age named Caterina di Meo Lippi had lived less than a mile from Vinci with her baby brother Papo. She could have become pregnant by...
Jun 16, 2017 · In his new book “ Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting ,” written with the economist and art researcher Giuseppe Pallanti, Kemp identifies Leonardo’s mother as Caterina di Meo Lippi, who ...
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Jun 12, 2017 · After digging through overlooked records in Italy, Martin Kemp, a leading Leonardo expert, claimed that the artist was born to Caterina di Meo Lippi, a 15-year-old orphan, on April 15, 1452.
Mar 15, 2023 · Martin Kemp, an Oxford University art history professor emeritus, co-wrote a 2017 book that identified Leonardo’s mother as Caterina di Meo Lippi, a 15-year-old orphan. He said he continued to favor the theory that the girl who gave birth to the masterpiece painter and inventor was a “rural mother.”
May 20, 2017 · According to Professor Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University, Leonardo’s mother was Caterina di Meo Lippi, a poor and vulnerable orphan, and only 15 when she was ...
Aug 14, 2021 · But now, a scholar has claimed that he found the woman behind the Italian Renaissance man. 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 April 15, 1452 when she was just 15 years old.