Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan. And it’s in this capacity that ...
Leonardo da Vinci was one of humankind's most curious minds. Explore a timeline of his life, admire his famous works and learn more about his areas of study. Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous ...
An upcoming book by art historian Stephen J. Campbell, Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, digs into what we know—and what we never can know—about the Renaissance genius. In the book, Campbell “addresses ...
The surfeit of biographies about Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) has helped create a “cult” of the Italian Renaissance painter that upholds some of Western culture’s “most cherished myths,” according to ...
Turns throughout PBS' “Leonardo da Vinci” remind us of how similar his era was to ours. Da Vinci’s Renaissance was a time of doubt and great uncertainty. His native city of Florence, Italy, was an ...
Step inside the world of the Renaissance and discover how Florence, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo shaped history ...
A groundbreaking project is piecing together Leonardo da Vinci’s genetic profile by tracing his lineage across 21 generations and comparing DNA from living descendants with remains in a Da Vinci ...