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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.” ...
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 ...
More than half a millennium after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still one of the most well-known artists in the world. The rare artist who, when you name some of his most iconic paintings, most ...
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 ...
One of the masterpieces attributed to Leonardo da Vinci has crossed a symbolic milestone by becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold. It is Salvator Mundi, a painting rediscovered in the ...
By Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist and polymath. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Named after its owners in the 19th century, ...
LEONARDO da VINCI follows the artist’s evolution as a draughtsman and painter, scientist and engineer, who used notebooks to explore an astonishing array of subjects including painting ...
The true, queer history of Florence is largely forgotten. Novelist Phil Melanson uncovers the gay Renaissance past of the ...
Leonardo Da Vinci breathes new life into the artist’s legend; Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon have painted a pretty complete picture of a man who was much more than the sum of his most ...