His mother was a 16-year-old peasant girl called Caterina di Meo Lippi, and his father was Ser Piero da Vinci, a 26-year-old notary. Being illegitimate, the young Leonardo was only permitted an ...

My way of depicting the human body will be as clear to you as if a real man were standing before you. Leonardo da Vinci Using an entirely ... is one-seventh of the face. The space from the mouth ...

After discovering the identity of his mother, a slave from the Caucasus, Carlo Vecce publishes the monumental 'Life of Leonardo' (Alfaguara), of 680 pages. "The goal is to recover his humanity beyond ...

Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings ... and the sweep of the human face—from the radiance of Leda to the misshapen features of an elderly ...

The Mona Lisa continues to captivate the world with its secrets. Every new study raises more questions than answers, keeping ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona ... the different features of Lisa’s face. And then he stops unexpectedly at the base of her throat. He says that beneath her almost ...

This frenzied scene is from Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Battle of Anghiari,” a lost masterpiece whose imagery has survived thanks only to later copies by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius ... began to bring honor to medical studies and to shed real light upon anatomy, which had until that time been shrouded in the deepest shadows ...