Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon tell IndieWire about the visual tricks that opened up the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci in their two-part PBS documentary series.

The Renaissance man’s design for a flying machine was ahead of its time. A new study suggests that an early helicopter design ...

A third shape hidden in Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than ...

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 ...

Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding way ahead of his time. To draw the Vitruvian Man in 1490 – an illustration of the ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper Clip: 11/18/2024 | 12m 8s | In the early 1490s, Leonardo da Vinci tackled his most ambitious work yet – The Last Supper. (12m 8s) ...

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci is surely the most iconic image of the Renaissance. Yet this tantalizingly complex drawing still contains plenty of mysteries for today’s scientists to uncover ...

While that is certainly the case with his paintings, “Leonardo Da Vinci” does a convincing job of peeling back the layers of what animated the man who created truly animating works of art.

A notebook featuring Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Dilara Irem. Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature.

The invention that may have aided in the development of the CVT that we know today was sketched by Leonardo da Vinci for the first time as early as the late-15th Century. As hard as it may be to ...

Leonardo da Vinci The Bottom Line A consistently engaging change of pace for its directors. Airdate: 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 (PBS) Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon ...