If accepted at the time, the design would have likely revolutionized architecture.

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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 ...

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 ...

History Hub presents a brief biography of Leonardo Da Vinci from beginning to end, whose remarkable story impacts our lives even today. On April 15, 1492, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the town of ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 674 pp., $35. Leonardo da Vinci was “illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical,” according to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The upcoming season of Da Vinci’s Demons will be its last, Starz has announced. Season 3 of the utterly fantastical Leonardo da Vinci bio-series — which was ordered way back in May 2014 — will ...