Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?

My way of depicting the human body will be as clear to you as if a real man were standing before you. Leonardo da Vinci Using an entirely scientific approach, Leonardo mapped the human body ...

It depicted a nude figure inside a circle and a square—and it looked uncannily like Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian ... in the Ten Books, that the human body can be made to fit inside a circle ...

Centuries before the invention of the automobile, Leonardo da Vinci designed a device that seems to resemble a CVT. But did he actually invent the transmission?

He dissected human cadavers, teasing out underlying ... the Met’s Bambach is publishing a four-volume opus, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered. Leonardo’s notebooks are starting to make their ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci’s ... later destroyed by French soldiers. Da Vinci had an unrivaled knowledge of human anatomy. He was the first to ...

Leonardo da Vinci Due to the unfinished nature of the ... inviting many perspectives that enrich our collective understanding of the human experience. Approaching it with Leonardo’s curiosity ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds ... By 1505, da Vinci had conceived of and sketched various types of human-powered flight, including a flying machine with huge, bat-like ...