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TV series to portray Leonardo Da Vinci as a ‘gay outsider’
Each episode will delve into the artist’s personal life
Leonardo Da Vinci self-portrait (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
A TV series is in development about Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci which will portray him as a “gay outsider,” according to Variety.
Italy’s RAI and Lux Vide have tapped showrunner Frank Spotnitz (“The Man in the High Castle”) and writer Steve Thompson (“Sherlock”) to helm “Leonardo,” an eight-part, English language series.
“He was a real outsider for those times. He was an illegitimate child, gay, vegetarian and left-handed,” RAI Head of Drama Eleonora Andreatta says.
The show will be told from the viewpoint of “a girl called Caterina, who was one of his models” which “will allow us to get inside his soul and his secrets,” according to Andreatta.
Each episode will focus on one of Da Vinci’s masterpieces but tell the “personal and adventurous” facets of Da Vinci’s life.
“Leonardo” is expected to air next year to correlate with the 500- year anniversary of Da Vinci’s death.
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