Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein. A recent study from the California Institute of Technology ...
LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci's thumbprint and preparatory sketches for some of his most famous works are going on display to the public at Buckingham Palace, in what is being billed as ...
New research uncovers the layered techniques behind Renaissance drawings by Rafael and Leonardo da Vinci, using advanced ...
A series of sketches and hand prints made by Leonardo Da Vinci, and hidden underneath one of his most famous paintings for more than 500 years, have been revealed for the first time. Scientific ...
London -- A drawing of a bearded, pensive-looking man owned by Queen Elizabeth II is a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, a royal art adviser said Thursday on the 500th anniversary of his death. Martin ...
Nearly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci wrote what became known as the Codex Leicester. In 1994, Microsoft's Bill Gates purchased the manuscript. "Bill Gates paid $30 million for the Codex Leicester, ...
A tiny sketch of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci sold for over $12 million on Thursday, setting a new auction record for a drawing by the renaissance artist. Measuring less than 8 square inches, the item ...
What: Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin. When: Next Sunday through Nov. 9. Museum hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m ...
Leonardo da Vinci not only invented the first refrigerator, self-propelled vehicle, and robot — he also invented the first drone. The designs reveal a self-operating quadcopter made of pine, equipped ...
A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...
As the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance great Leonardo da Vinci approaches, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is reaching deep into its archive to exhibit four rarely shown ...
Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in ...