When kids learn about famous artists in picture books and narrative nonfiction stories, it helps readers remember the famous ...

Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes about how Billie Jean King’s ties to South Carolina make a local school district’s ...

Raymond School’s third graders stepped into history last week when they transformed the cafeteria into a living wax museum, ...

Campbell argues that Leonardo’s works, such as The Vitruvian Man (around 1490), have been co-opted into a mythical “Da Vinci World ... that around 250 new books were released to coincide ...

Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, a new book by Stephen Campbell ... to provide what a modern reader expects from a biography. Although, to be fair, except for a few cases of detailed ...

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 ...

An upcoming book by art historian Stephen J. Campbell, Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life ... We spoke to the author about this “anti-biography,” what makes Leonardo so “untraceable,” and ...

This exciting biography tells an incredible ... about our PBS Books Readers Club Pick this month, "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson. Book friends, what were your thoughts?

This exciting biography tells an incredible ... about our PBS Books Readers Club Pick this month, "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson. Book friends, what were your thoughts?

It was less than 20 minutes into Leonardo da Vinci ... includes writer Walter Isaacson (author of a recent da Vinci biography), film director Guillermo del Toro, historian Ingrid Rossellini ...

Wild guess: You’ve probably heard of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519 ... since it’s necessary to set up a complex mix of biography and history as background during a period of profound social ...