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A study says a triangle between the Vitruvian Man’s feet reveals a 1.64 ratio, also found in Bonwill’s jaw model and natural ...
According to a London-based dentist named Rory Mac Sweeney, the key to understanding the Vitruvian Man, it turns out, was ...
It is one of the most famous – and mystifying – drawings in human history. Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was the attempt ...
This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...
A longstanding mystery surrounding the Vitruvian man – yes, that Vitruvian man – has a new solution. The weird part? It comes ...
A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical ...
While Leonardo da Vinci is celebrated as a genius inventor and visionary, not all of his creations were successful some were impractical, dangerous, or just plain bizarre. This video explores Leonardo ...
For more than five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has invited admiration but also bafflement. With its harmonious symmetry of limbs outstretched in both a square and a circle, the ...
More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. “Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson ...
(classic, upbeat music) - The idea for this film actually came from Walter Isaacson. He suggested it to my dad. And I think my dad's first instinct was, that's not really what we do. We focus on ...
The documentary, which airs on PBS Monday and Tuesday, came about thanks to a conversation between Burns and da Vinci biographer Walter Isaacson during a 2017 dinner in Washington, D.C.
Leonardo da Vinci, Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist (ca 1480). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.