Although famed Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci has passed away for 502 years, his bloodline remains around. New studies have exposed 14 residing male descendants of da Vinci, with the chance of extra relatives. This discovery comes after years of studying ancient files., with the final purpose of sequencing the deceased artist’s genome to recognize his genius.

The studies emerged from a brand new magazine titled “The New Genealogical Tree of the Da Vinci Family for Leonardo’s DNA. Ancestors and descendants in direct male line right all the way down to the prevailing XXI generation.” The studies started in 2016 and changed at the end posted this week in Human Evolution. In charge of the studies, student and artwork historian Alessandro Vezzosi, who additionally based Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, and historian Agnese Sabato, President of Associazione Leonardo Da Vinci Heritage.

Vessosi started the paintings of tracing da Vinci’s family tree in 1973 and commenced operating with Sabato in 1993. Since their start, they have sifted through 690 years of each public and personal files to piece together the artist’s own circle of relatives' history collectively.

ARTnews suggested Sabato stated through email: “[I felt] happy, each for the fruit of a lot paintings and for having recognized to those descendants the beginning in their own circle of relatives. It changed into like discovering, piece with the aid of using piece, the layout of a misplaced historic mosaic. It changed into the pleasure of giving those humans again a tale that had constantly been theirs however which they did now no longer know.”

Thus far, studies efforts have procured records on 224 people spanning 21 generations, wherein the studies started with Michele Leonardo of the 14th century. “The Leonardo Da Vinci DNA Project” is an international attempt to collect da Vinci’s DNA, and the own circle of relatives tree task is simply the primary phase.