Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Anthropological Analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's Fingerprints
AU  - D'Anastasio R
AU  - Vezzosi A
AU  - Gallenga PE
AU  - Pierfelice L
AU  - Sabato A
AU  - Capasso L
Y1  - 2005
VL  - 43
IS  - 1
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 57
EP  - 61
KW  - Fingerprints
KW  - Biological traces
KW  - Renaissance masters
N2  - 
N2  - Leonardo's writings, drawings and paintings contain many fingerprints representing the only biological traces of the genius, and of the world surrounding him. These fingerprints were produced by ink, by biological fluids (saliva, blood), and possibly food (oil, fats?). The topographic distributions or the completeness of the prints show the manual ability of the genius, and the presence of some sort of disturbance (joint or neuro-muscular disease) having occurred during the last part of his life. The authors reconstruct the left thumb print released on manuscripts and its perfect correspondence to the print on the examined canvases.
ER  -