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

Leonardo da Vinci's time in Venice, although brief, left a significant mark. In 1500, he was invited by the Doge to assess the city’s defences and design new systems against Turkish invasions.

His father, Ser Piero da Vinci, held elevated ... “and made something real out of it.” Leonardo’s final foray, in the fall of 1516, took him to Amboise, France, where King Francis I, an ...

Recreations of Leonardo da Vinci's most innovative machines are stored ... visiting a permanent exhibit at a museum in Amboise, France. "When we found out there was a possibility of getting ...

Rome and finally France, he pours the sum of his scientific and artistic knowledge into a portrait that would become the most famous painting on earth. You might know that Leonardo da Vinci was a ...

In 1516, he invited the 64-year-old Leonardo da Vinci to France, installing him at the Château de Cloux near the royal castle at Amboise and providing him with a generous salary. Unlike Leonardo ...

Hotel Da Vinci & Spa features 24 rooms, each named after an Italian artist or writer of the quattrocento, and stylish, contemporary decor throughout. What's more, a glance through the hotel's ...

At long last, Berenson had freed himself from the vampiric face of the Mona Lisa. Today Leonardo’s painting, happily recovered in 1913 for generations of visitors after its theft in 1911, still looms ...

Come on over here, and please meet, Leonardo da Vinci. LEONARDO DA VINCI:Ciao Dick and Dom. DICK:'Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 near the town of Vinci His name actually means Leonardo OF Vinci.' ...