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Stephanie Elizondo Griest traveled to 12 countries over the course of a decade in a global search for 'art monks.' ...
A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical ...
American fitness entrepreneur Tracy Anderson counts Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna among her clients, and she has built a ...
Florence isn’t just for art lovers—it’s a fantastic destination for families, too! From climbing the Duomo to exploring hands ...
Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing their faith, sometimes controversially, in work of that era.
The new Italian-language book, 'Genìa Da Vinci. Genealogy and Genetics for Leonardo's DNA', is 'one of the most advanced historical-genetic investigations ever undertaken', according to Vezzosi ...
A new book. Genìa Da Vinci. unveils a breakthrough finding by the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project: The Y chromosome shared by six male-line descendants of his family living in Italy ...
The book, despite coming before The Da Vinci’s Code, was adapted into the first film’s sequel, in 2009. The movie was received with mixed reviews, but was critically considered better than its ...
Explore Leonardo da Vinci’s eye for cartography further using Maps, Art, and Environment: Leonardo da Vinci’s Innovation through Observation (Grades 6-12) on PBS LearningMedia.
Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, a new book by Stephen Campbell, reproduces one of those notebook pages: a single page with notes on the way that water flows, a drawing of a vase adapted ...
Photo: Photo Josse/Bridgeman Images The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and starts very early in the 16th century.
Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of an Elderly Man. Ca. 1500-05. Image courtesy of Princeton University Press. HIP / Art Resource, NY.