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Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan town of Vinci, Italy, emerged as a quintessential Renaissance polymath. The illegitimate son of Piero da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and ...

Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan. And it’s in this capacity that ...

Would you hire this guy? The candidate is hopeless with deadlines and alternates between undisciplined meandering and grandiose hyperactivity. When he isn’t sketching birds, he’s making fruitless ...

"We wished, in order to pay homage to the artist, to be able to show the entirety of Leonardo Da Vinci's career and his development and to explain, ultimately, the sense of his life," curator Vincent ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 674 pp., $35. Leonardo da Vinci was “illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical,” according to an ...

Stamford’s Avon Theatre will be hosting two special screenings in the coming weeks. Exhibition of Screen, the award-winning cinematic series that explores the biographies of history’s most revered ...

The upcoming season of Da Vinci’s Demons will be its last, Starz has announced. Season 3 of the utterly fantastical Leonardo da Vinci bio-series — which was ordered way back in May 2014 — will ...

Oil prices held steady on Thursday as worries over softening U.S. demand and broad oversupply risks were offset by concerns over attacks in the Middle East and the Russian war in Ukraine.

It’s a match made in (Hollywood) heaven: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will play Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci in a film based on a biography written by Walter Isaacson, set to be published in ...

2017-11-18T13:01:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/9e3/20171118131121002_hd.jpgWalter Isaacson talked about his book Leonardo da Vinci, in which he examines the ...

A new TV series about Leonardo da Vinci that portrays the Italian artist and thinker as a gay outsider has reopened a long-running debate about his sexuality. Is $450m Leonardo da Vinci painting a ...