Leonardo da Vinci ... of the castle is unclear, but the finding “reinforces the influence of this great thinker on the history and architectural development of the Sforza Castle,” she added.

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...

Beneath Sforza Castle in Milan, researchers have discovered a series of secret tunnels—passageways once sketched by the Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci and traversed by a ...

Archeologists discovered, thanks to modern technology, that ancient sketches by Leonardo depict real tunnels under the Sforza ...

Leonardo da Vinci knew the right strings to pull. Keen to work for the Milanese nobleman Ludovico Sforza, he offered his services not only as engineer and architect, but also as a sculptor: ‘I would ...

Ludovico Sforza was the duke regent ... In 1516, he invited the 64-year-old Leonardo da Vinci to France, installing him at the Château de Cloux near the royal castle at Amboise and providing ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works ... civil servant who had caught Sforza’s eye and soon after was living in a suite of rooms in his castle. What Leonardo has done is to tell a ...

Bianca Sforza attracted few stares when introduced ... Ganz herself had mentioned Leonardo da Vinci, that magical name, as an influence on the artist. Silverman came to wonder, What if this ...

Leonardo da Vinci excelled ... event that the castle’s defenses had been breached. The discovery, which the Politecnico di Milano announced in January, came about through a series of surveys that ...