Historians believe the time da Vinci lived in the rooms coincides with the creation of his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. The mystery, which ties Leonardo da Vinci to his muse Mona Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine merchant, may also be revealed in the newly-discovered rooms. "For the first time, in this case, we see birds which are absolutely dynamic, animals which are absolutely vivid and which remind us of the study done by Leonardo on birds in flight," he said. Manescalchi says this room is where Leonardo da Vinci studied birds and flight. The walls are covered in well-preserved frescoes that were hidden for centuries. Their workshops were long ago damaged or forgotten.īut a recent discovery by researchers at the Santissima Annunziata Monastery may be the studio and rooms where Leonardo da Vinci lived and worked in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.Īrt historian Roberto Manescalchi and his team uncovered a hidden staircase and doorway from the monastery that leads to the rooms in the adjoining Italian Institute of Military Geography.
But very little is known about where da Vinci might have lived and worked.įor 2,000 years, the city of Florence, on the Arno River in the Tuscany region of Italy has been known for it's famous artisans: Dante, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was a creative genius in art, architecture, engineering and invention. It has been 486 years since the man often hailed as the archetypal Renaissance man died.
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