A lock of hair believed to belong to Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was discovered at a museum in Italy.
A picture taken in center Milan on May 3, 2019 shows the details of a statue of Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci done by Italian sculpture Pietro Magni.VINCI, Italy - An Italian museum says it plans to carry out DNA tests on a lock of hair it believes might have belonged to the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago this month.
Alessandro Vezzosi, the director of the Ideal Leonardo da Vinci museum in Vinci, the artist's hometown in Tuscany, said the strand of hair was collected from the site in 1863 by a man tasked by a royal commission to try to locate Leonardo's remains. He said the museum planned to extract DNA from the sample and compare it with the DNA from a group of descendants that the museum says it identified in 2016, using genealogical records.The testing should also be able to prove if the remains identified in France in 1863 really belonged to da Vinci.
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