A partial view of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper," preserved at the ex-Renaissance refectory of the convent adjacent to the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie church, in Milan, Italy ...

Few individuals have been able to blend artistry and science together as well as Leonardo Da Vinci. An artist as well as an ...

In 1509, Leonard da Vinci began hand-copying thousands of pages of his written memories, theories and drawings for a series of notebooks that — he wrote in an apologetic forward to possible future ...

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 ...

The two-part, four-hour PBS documentary is filmmaker Ken Burns’ first project not exploring an American subject. It also features a musical score by Caroline Shaw, another new direction for Burns.

Leonardo da Vinci spends 14 years working on the Mona Lisa, the culmination of all his knowledge. Toward the end of his life, Leonardo da Vinci finally finds the perfect patron – the King of France – ...

Encore Fridays, Jan. 17 and 24, 2025 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Jan. 19 and 26 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari commission pits him against his rival, Michelangelo. In October 1503, Leonardo da Vinci begins work on a monumental mural, The Battle of Anghiari. But the ...

‘No one wants to know the truth!” says Leonardo da Vinci in “The Inventor,” frustrated that beautiful things, many of which he has made himself, seem to interest 16th-century man more than pure ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian are to go on display in ... One of the highlights is an example of one of Leonardo’s anatomical studies drawn from a real-life dissection. On ...