For many people, Leonardo da Vinci represents the stereotypical image of the artist—and not only the artist, but also the “Renaissance man” with knowledge and aptitude in both art and the sciences. A ...

Imagine a robot dressed in a suit of armor and rigged so that it would salute only a king. Imagine this robot was created 500 years ago. This robot, rigged to salute King Francois I of France when he ...

Leonardo da Vinci called himself a “disciple of experience,” and it could be said that all of the many millions of people who troupe to see the Italian genius’s “Mona Lisa” every year are disciples of ...

We throw the word genius around a lot these days. But Leonardo Da Vinci? The word barely begins to describe him. He was a remarkable painter, sculptor, engineer, architect, writer, mathematician and ...

MIDLAND, MI — His paintings are the first to catch your eye, smoky shadows giving way to strangely illuminated faces that beg viewers to unlock the secret behind a slight smile. Then, continuing ...

Old masters rarely come more venerable (and venerated) and instantly recognisable than Leonardo da Vinci. But to think of Leonardo as an Old Master – with all its connotations of being staid, ...

Fourteen people alive today in Italy can claim that they are descendants of Leonardo da Vinci, according to a study of the Renaissance genius' family tree. Researchers traced da Vinci's genealogy over ...

Last month’s selection for our book club was Walter Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was certainly a remarkable human being, possessing a wide variety of characteristics that ...

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and starts very early in the 16th century. By now it has been seen by billions of ...

The painting "Salvator Mundi" by Leonardo da Vinci could fetch $100 million or so at auction next month-- just one small part of Leonardo's rich legacy. Our Cover Story is reported by Dr. Jon La Pook: ...