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A London-based dentist has uncovered a hidden detail in Leonardo da Vinci ’s famous Vitruvian Man drawing, revealing a ...
Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...
The inspired—and inspiring—mind of Leonardo da Vinci is at the heart of the Saint Louis Women’s Chorale’s upcoming concert, Brushstrokes: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.Composer Jocelyn Hagen was ...
Leonardo da Vinci's mother was a slave called Caterina who was trafficked from the Caucasus to Italy, ... “In Florence the market demanded young women above all, destined for use as servants, ...
Lest we forget, Mr. Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” (2003) turned on the idea that Leonardo’s works contain cryptic symbols and ...
Leonardo da Vinci may be best remembered as an artist, ... In the late 1480s and early 1490s, he made many exotic, fantastic, and ugly drawings of men, women, and animals.
Leonardo da Vinci's Christ painting sells for record $450M. ... Previously, the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction had been $179.4 million for Picasso’s “Women of Algiers ...
Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin, the Christ Child, Saint John the Baptist and an Angel, also known as the Virgin of the Rocks (1483/1494). Courtesy Musée du Louvre. Back again, it’s Virgin of the ...
Leonardo da Vinci is a 2-part, 4-hour docuseries directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. It’s Ken Burns’ first project that isn’t about an American subject, but given how da ...
After an almost-four-hour chronological march through the highlights of Leonardo da Vinci’s career as an artist, scientist, military engineer and courtly polymath, the directors of the new two ...
LEONARDO da VINCI, a new, two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon explores the life and work of the 15 th century polymath Leonardo da Vinci, is Burns ...