"Cheaper than Gangnam apartments" Da Vinci Mansion auctioned for 4.6 billion won

Place Where the Medici Family Sponsored Stay
3 Stories High with 5 Rooms, 4 Bathrooms, and a Courtyard

The 6,500㎡ (approximately 2,000 pyeong) house where Leonardo da Vinci last lived in Italy has been put up for auction.

According to foreign media such as InsideHook on the 20th (local time), an apartment called Emilia Residence in the Bologna region, where Leonardo da Vinci last lived in Italy, has been put up for auction.

This place is known as the location where da Vinci stayed with his patron Giuliano de Medici until just before leaving Italy in 1516 at the invitation of Francis I.

The apartment is part of the Felicini Palace, a famous landmark in Bologna. It is large, measuring 6,500㎡ (approximately 2,000 pyeong). The apartment has a total of three floors, five rooms, four bathrooms, and a courtyard. Additionally, murals, ceiling paintings, and marble stairs retain the atmosphere from the time da Vinci lived there.

The current owner of this apartment is known to be Giuseppe Signori, a former Italian football player. Sotheby’s Italy is handling the brokerage, and the price is 3.2 million euros (approximately 4.6 billion KRW).

Considering that a 104㎡ apartment in Banpo Jugong 1 Complex, Seocho-gu, Seoul, was recently traded for 4.7 billion KRW, this price is similar to that of ultra-luxury apartments in Gangnam.

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Vitruvian Man'
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Meanwhile, it was confirmed around February that Leonardo da Vinci, the genius of the Italian Renaissance, was the first in human history to mathematically study Earth's gravity.

According to The New York Times (NYT), a research team from the California Institute of Technology (CIT) decoded sketches in da Vinci’s ancient manuscript 'Codex Arundel' and published a paper stating that between 1478 and 1518, da Vinci left scientific writings in the Codex Arundel, including a sketch on page 143 depicting marbles falling from a jar along with notes on triangular shapes.

Da Vinci’s sketches and notes related to gravity precede Galileo Galilei, who is known as the first scientist to experimentally study gravity, by more than 100 years.

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