Even in his own time, the 15th century, the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was the archetype of what we now call the Renaissance Man. Today he's perhaps best remembered as a ...

Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter. He created thousands of drawings in his notebooks in which he wrote obsessively, and while hundreds of these sketches by the Renaissance polymath ...

Image courtesy of Realy Easy Star / Toni Spagone / Alamy Stock Photo Leonardo da Vinci may be best remembered ... Instead this true-to-form Renaissance man, who lived at the height of the Italian ...

While that is certainly the case with his paintings, "Leonardo Da Vinci" does a convincing job of peeling back the layers of what animated the man who created truly animating works of art.

"The Vitruvian Man," one of Da Vinci's most well-known sketches ... him to many different cultural centers of Renaissance Europe. In his teens, Leonardo apprenticed with artist Andrea del ...

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He even studied ancient sources, which led to his famous depiction of The Vitruvian Man. Leonardo da Vinci believed extensive knowledge of human anatomy was essential to depicting the human form.

Opening Shot: “The ancients describe man as the world in miniature,” says Leonardo da Vinci (voiced by Adriano Giannini) as we see an old film of a man’s back as he lifts and lowers his arms.

While that is certainly the case with his paintings, “Leonardo Da Vinci” does a convincing job of peeling back the layers of what animated the man who created truly animating works of art.