Leonardo da Vinci, art history’s most famous southpaw, was actually ambidextrous, researchers have proven. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence conducted an in-depth study of Leonardo’s earliest known ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian are to go on display in Scotland for the first time. More than 80 ...

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, a name synonymous with genius, stands as a towering figure of the High Renaissance. Born in ...

New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by ...

When it comes to Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, there’s more than meets the eye. The famed Mona Lisa artist’s works are teeming with an array of microbes that researchers say provide an invisible ...

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Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan town of Vinci, Italy, emerged as a quintessential Renaissance polymath. The illegitimate son of Piero da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and ...

Before Leonardo da Vinci, most art fell flat. Pre-Renaissance painters hadn’t really figured out how to depict the world in three dimensions, so landscapes and portraits appeared rather cartoonish.

A 500-year-old engraving may show Leonardo da Vinci playing a musical instrument called a lira da braccio. If verified, the engraving would represent just the third contemporary depiction of da Vinci ...

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