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 ...

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 ...

When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, he may have experimented with lead oxide in his base layer, resulting in trace amounts of a compound called plumbonacrite.It ...

Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts on display at Villa La Loggia in Florence, Italy, on Tuesday. Marco Bertorello / AFP - Getty Images. Some scholars suggested Leonardo's mother was a peasant, others ...

A 1457 tax return filed by Leonardo’s grandfather, Antonio da Vinci, listed his family members, including Piero da Vinci’s illegitimate son, 'born of him and Caterina'.

Her name was Caterina, and sometime in 1451, she had a relationship with the notary Piero da Vinci, giving birth on April 15, 1452, to a son who was born out of wedlock and baptized Leonardo.

More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. “Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson ...