Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps most noted as an artist, was also an architect, inventor and chronicler of science, among other outlets for his talents. Born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da ...

Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan town of Vinci, Italy, emerged as a quintessential Renaissance polymath. The illegitimate son of Piero da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and ...

NEW YORK — Researching the life of Leonardo da Vinci left Walter Isaacson in a playful mood. “He’s the most fun, joyous person I can imagine,” says the best-selling biographer, whose “Leonardo da ...

Would you hire this guy? The candidate is hopeless with deadlines and alternates between undisciplined meandering and grandiose hyperactivity. When he isn’t sketching birds, he’s making fruitless ...

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Researchers at MIT have proven Leonardo da Vinci correct yet again, this time involving his design for what would have been a ...

What has been said of Shakespeare could be said of Leonardo: All of the verifiable facts of his life can be set down on a page. Of course, that has not deterred biographers from making book on these ...

Walter’s Isaacson’s new biography, “Leonardo da Vinci” (no subtitle necessary), is a book that begins and ends with genius. This is hardly surprising. The name Leonardo is synonymous with genius, and ...

Is it a rift between art and science or just artistic genius at work? In what looks to be the start of Leonardo da Vinci delirium, art experts and scholars (including us) are geeking out over a ...

Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan. And it’s in this capacity that ...