A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical ...

For centuries, the genius of Leonardo da Vinci has captivated historians, scientists, and artists alike. Known for his ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for his extraordinary talent and groundbreaking experiments. Today, an ...

A 1457 tax return filed by Leonardo’s grandfather, Antonio da Vinci, listed his family members, including Piero da Vinci’s illegitimate son, 'born of him and Caterina'. But the family tree ...

A new book. Genìa Da Vinci. unveils a breakthrough finding by the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project: The Y chromosome shared by six male-line descendants of his family living in Italy ...

Stephen J. Campbell argues that Leonardo’s works, such as The Vitruvian Man (around 1490), have been co-opted into a mythical “Da Vinci World” played out in 20th-century works such as ...

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. Anchiano is believed to be Leonardo da Vinci’s birthplace.

Elsewhere in the codex, folio 272 contains a striking marginal note: “On Wednesday, July 9, 1504, at 7 o’clock, Ser Piero da Vinci, the notary at Podestà Palace, my father, died.

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari commission pits him against his rival, Michelangelo. In October 1503, Leonardo da Vinci begins work on a monumental mural, The Battle of Anghiari. But ...

Even in his own time, the 15th century, the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was the archetype of what we now call the Renaissance Man. Today he's perhaps best remembered as a ...