2006-12-09 21:55:41 · 4 answers · asked by ytamarsiani40 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci died May 2, 1519 and is entombed at the Saint Hubert Chapel in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France
2006-12-09 22:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by ghrpdx 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was originally buried in the cloister of the church of Saint-Florentin at Amboise, now destroyed. In 1863 poet, Arsene Houssaye excavated the site and found pieces of grave marker/tombstone inscribed (EO[....]DUS VINC) and a skeleton with a over large cranium. The size of the skull led him to deduct that these were the remains of Leonardo da Vinci because he hypothesised that the polymath's brain would have been larger than usual. Houssaye's hypothesis remains unproven and the bones now lie in the Chapel of St Hubert, Amboise Castle, Loire Valley.
I was actually at Amboise a few weeks ago and the chapel contains a plaque of memorial to da Vinci. As a Leonardo researcher I, like other historians can not say with any certainty that this is the master's last resting place. It is simply a probability and yet another Leonardo mystery.
2006-12-10 15:54:11 · answer #2 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
where he's burried
2006-12-10 06:04:12 · answer #3 · answered by RZA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋