Warmest congratulations to Christian Gálvez!
November 2017:
Christian was appointed curator of the Leonardo’s exhibition in Spain for the celebration of the 500th anniversary. More details to come.
October 2017:
Christian was given the coveted prize for best TV host of 2017, by the Academy of Sciences and the Arts of the Television of Spain.
The Leonardo DNA Project is featured on pages 49 and 54-55 of Claudia Kalb’s article about genius in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Here is the new November 2017 link: https://issuu.com/lidiamontermini/docs/genius_ng_may2017
Team members of the project “Using New Anthropological and Biological Tools to Learn about Leonardo da Vinci” with seed money from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation met 2-3 May in Florence, Italy, and have issued a press release about the publication of a set of papers from the project in Human Evolution. Jesse Ausubel mediated the opening seminar on 2 May sponsored by Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Jesse’s introductory essay is here. The press release earned wide attention, for example,
BBC radio:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tb7ht
Gizmodo, USA
The Brilliantly Insane Plan to Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci’s Genome
https://gizmodo.com/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-1774873148
Daily Telegraph, UK
Leonardo da Vinci paintings analysed for DNA to solve grave mystery
La Repubblica–
Leonardo, alla ricerca del Dna per ricostruire il profilo genetico: prelievi su tombe e dipinti
Jesse Ausubel, vice presidente della Fondazione Richard Lounsbery, che sta finanziando parte del progetto, spiega che dopo aver ricostruito la sequenza del Dna si proverà a ottenere “tracce biologiche che potrebbero essere rimaste nelle pitture o nelle …
Agencia EFE, Spain (Spanish)
INVESTIGADORES QUIEREN EL ADN DE LEONARDO DA VINCI PARA RECONSTRUIR AL GENIO (RESEARCHERS WANT THE DNA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI TO REBUILD THE GENIUS)
The Leonardo site of Cesare Marchetti: https://cesaremarchetti.org/leonardo.php
Paper by Marchetti & Panconesi on skin diseases in the Adoration of the Magi: https://www.cesaremarchetti.org/archive/electronic/leojead.pdf