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It is one of the most famous – and mystifying – drawings in human history. Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was the attempt ...
PARIS — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global ... It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — ...
Roughly 20,000 people a day squeeze into the Salle des États, the museum’s largest room, just to snap a selfie with Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic woman behind protective glass.
Forget secret bloodlines and Holy Grail conspiracies—turns out, the real Da Vinci Code might have been a triangle between Leonardo’s ...
While it appears to be a one-off event, it’s another indicator of the challenges sparked by overtourism across Europe.
A strike on June 16 that left visitors waiting outside the Mona Lisa’s home shows change is needed more urgently than Macron has promised.
After weeks of tension and a sudden staff strike that left thousands of tourists waiting outside its gates, Paris’s Louvre ...
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The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, and the chief architect of France's historic monuments, François Chatillon, speak ...
Staff are exasperated by overcrowding in a crumbling museum. Luckily for visitors, other Leonardo masterpieces are available ...
The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution in Paris is ...
A simulation of the "aerial screw" designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1480 suggests it would use less power than modern drone ...