Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

Fortunately, anyone can appreciate art, especially with guidance from the 15th-century Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was an artist driven by “wanting to know.” He considered ...

The Mona Lisa continues to captivate the world with its secrets. Every new study raises more questions than answers, keeping ...

One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

78v.) Leonardo da Vinci observed that tree limbs preserve their thickness as they branch. The Italian Renaissance artist used a parameter called α to determine the relationships between the ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to ...

This frenzied scene is from Leonardo da Vinci’s ... A drawing by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) after da Vinci's "The Battle of Anghiari" (Vladimir Polotovskiy/Getty Images ...

According to the authors, art and science provide complementary lenses on the natural and human worlds. Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is ...