The study comes out: 15th - century Italians mocked Leonardo Da Vinci

Although the great Italian's work was popular at the time, in a recent study that will be published this week, the ridicule they made to other artists in Milan's Renaissance is shown.

Writer Simon Hewitt has discovered the rare image he was in the German, with chemical strands illustrated a poem in 1495 showing how Leonardo scoffed, writes The Guardian.

The background of the comic strip is a dark manuscript in Berlin and is not seen by any Leonardo scholar earlier. ”

Redheads were rare in the 15th century in Milan, but not unknown, and were treated as strange people. Hewitt doubts that Leonardo was descended from cazaras, Turkish people descended from the steppes of Asia.

And Leonardo is also mocked at his fascinate with the men's semi-missed bodies. /Periscope