A Renaissance mind built machines no one could understand—until centuries later. What was he really trying to escape?

An old new house: The Ningbo Museum of History (KOR) ...

A study published in the book Genìa Da Vinci revealed that Leonardo da Vinci has at least six living male descendants who share his Y chromosome, according to Il Giornale. For the first time, an ...

Chapter three examines the emergence of historical biography writing in the 19th ... Stephen J. Campbell, Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, Princeton University Press, 352pp, 47 colour ...

Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life ... t have enough information to provide what a modern reader expects from a biography. Although, to be fair, except for a few cases of detailed ...

This frenzied scene is from Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Battle of Anghiari ... who included a reference to “The Battle of Anghiari” in a biography of Leonardo written in Latin around ...

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 ... him and that this [biography] could have ...

And we do say that all the time. Now, before we get into the biography by Walter Isaacson, let's take a quick look at the PBS film on Leonardo da Vinci, another masterpiece from Ken Burns ...

It was less than 20 minutes into Leonardo da Vinci ... includes writer Walter Isaacson (author of a recent da Vinci biography), film director Guillermo del Toro, historian Ingrid Rossellini ...

Wild guess: You’ve probably heard of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519 ... since it’s necessary to set up a complex mix of biography and history as background during a period of profound social ...

Leonardo da Vinci, Santa Maria delle Grazie ... get your facts from Siri and Wikipedia and podcasts, walk past a dragonfly or blackbird without a second glance — this is an urgent reminder ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI. THINK ABOUT DIFFERENT WAYS OF TELLING ... I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO. AND WE’VE GOT A BIOGRAPHY OF A PERSON WHOSE PERSONAL STUFF IS VERY MEAGER. HE LEFT US THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS ...