Scientists have confirmed Leonardo da Vinci’s bloodline by tracing matching DNA in living male-line descendants.

Now, researchers provide a gripping insight into the family of Renaissance-era Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519 ... Among his anatomical discoveries was the optic nerve, which ...

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

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary ... Domenico Benedetto. This allowed David Caramelli, the Leonardo DNA Project's coordinator for anthropological ...

Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci were all in Rome at the same time. Pope Julius II wanted to restore the Eternal ...

A study published in the book Genìa Da Vinci revealed that Leonardo da Vinci has at least six living male descendants who ...

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two of the world ... whose job it was to decide where Michelangelo’s 17-foot David—which the then 26-year-old had been commissioned to create in ...

Leonardo da Vinci – the artist, scientist, and archetypal polymath of the Renaissance – may still have descendants living ...

Centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died far from his Tuscany homeland ... the DNA extracted is sufficiently preserved,” said David Caramelli, director of the Department of Biology at the Universi ...