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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...