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For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...
Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?
Scientists have confirmed Leonardo da Vinci’s bloodline by tracing matching DNA in living male-line descendants.
His legacy as a painter ... da braccio (an ancestor of the violin). The subject of the portrait was probably the performer and instrument-maker Atalante Migliorotti, who accompanied Leonardo ...
Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...
Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...
Researchers are yet to verify whether the supposed descendants like drawing weird prototype helicopter things.
Eggheads believe Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA could crack the code of what makes a genius. The famous artist was a polymath - ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is one of the most iconic artworks in Western history. But from the moment the paint ...