The acclaimed filmmaker behind the PBS documentary on the 15th century Italian artist and intellectual calls Leonardo da ...

This week, senior reporter Eileen Kinsella speaks to documentarian Ken Burns about his first foray outside of American ...

I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings. Outside the towering stone walls, tourists snap selfies and rummage through souvenir tea towels.

Leonardo da Vinci predicted how our heart valves close with almost unbelievable powers of deduction and 500 years later, we know he was right. Leonardo became obsessed with the heart in the latter ...

Ken Burns added: "He's an anatomist, and he's a botanist, and he's interested in flight, and he's a sculptor, and he's a painter, and he's an artist, and he's all of those. The reason why it's such a ...

Come on over here, and please meet, Leonardo da Vinci. LEONARDO DA VINCI:Ciao Dick and Dom. DICK:'Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 near the town of Vinci His name actually means Leonardo OF Vinci.' ...

La belle ferronnière - a portrait of a lady from the court of Milan - is a work attributed to Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci It took more than a decade to prepare and was almost thwarted by ...

Poldark actor Aidan Turner has said he is "glad" that a new historical drama about Leonardo da Vinci reflects the artist's sexuality. The Amazon Prime TV series stars Turner as the Renaissance ...

A clever inventor like Leonardo da Vinci seems like the ideal subject for a clever artform like stop-motion animation. And in many ways he is: Da Vinci’s creations translate to the screen with whimsy ...

Leonardo DiCaprio, an Academy Award®-winning actor, has been an outspoken advocate for environmental issues throughout much of his career. In 1998, at the age of 24, Mr. DiCaprio established his ...

That is certainly the case with Gary Graves newest play “The Contest.” Here Graves takes a real event in 1504 when Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were commissioned by the Republic of Florence to ...

Leonardo DiCaprio has no interest in slowing down ahead of his milestone 50th birthday. The Oscar winner turns the big 5-0 on Monday 11. As for how he will celebrate his big day, a source exclusively ...