Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings ... Within several years, he’d received his first commissions: an altarpiece for a chapel in the ...

I am convinced that Leonardo wanted to project the story of his own life and childhood onto these figures, those moments of happiness, the early years he ... of the Da Vinci family are preserved ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona ... a commission from 14 years earlier. At the time, she had been 24 years old and the mother of five children. There is a beautiful ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ... in the Middle East had been testing theories with experiments for years, but most European natural philosophers relied solely on observation.

In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

Claudio Sgarbi says he "was totally astonished" when he examined a manuscript including a drawing that seemed to prefigure Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian ... antiquity alike. Early copies are ...

More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous ... an insatiable thirst for knowledge. From early renderings of flying machines to anatomical ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds ... and go into storage for a minimum of 10 years. “So while this isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity [to see the codex], it’s pretty ...