Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

Leonardo da Vinci wasn't just a master artist — he was centuries ahead in science too! Late in his life, he became fascinated by the human heart and made a stunning prediction about how the blood flow ...

Born on April 15, 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is one of humankind's greatest and most creative minds. He may be best known for influential paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper ...

I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings. Outside the towering stone walls, tourists snap selfies and rummage through souvenir tea towels.

Stephen J. Campbell argues that Leonardo’s works, such as The Vitruvian Man (around 1490), have been co-opted into a mythical “Da Vinci World” played out in 20th-century works such as ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds, compiled by the artist between 1505 and 1506, has been seen by the public in this century only rarely. After a brief exhibit at Moscow’s ...

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title. Though he is best known for his talents as a painter, he was also an engineer, architect ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci’s death. Dubbed the “Universal Genius” and the “Renaissance Man”, da Vinci was born in 1452, in the Italian town ...