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 ...

One of the most prominent rumors surrounding the over 575-year-old fortress has long been the existence of secret passageways ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...

But it was clear there was so much more to the story as soon as we started reading about him and that this [biography ... Da Vinci's story - a brace of art historians and Leonardo biographers ...

It is hard to imagine one more accomplished in so many areas than Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, who was born in April 1452. He is famous for his work as an engineer, scientist, sculptor ...

Not DiCaprio, but the fellow from the Italian town of Vinci, that Renaissance genius who more than warrants the four hours of "Leonardo da Vinci," airing Nov. 18 and 19 on PBS (check local listings).

writing a biography of someone deemed a ‘genius’ is positively perilous. The danger of producing hagiography is all too real, and all too familiar in the history of the genre. The locus classicus for ...