Leonardo da Vinci, the Last Supper, and the Art of Throwing a Great Dinner Party
This presentation will explore the evolution of the Last Supper in Italian art, beginning with early Christian images through to the late Renaissance, including one of the world’s most famous works of art: Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Military Engineer
Leonardo da Vinci is best known for his paintings such as Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but he also believed himself to be very skilled in the art of war.
There are 14 living descendants of Leonardo da Vinci, researchers find
After a decade-long investigation, researchers Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato have come up with some surprising results about Leonardo da Vinci’s family tree.
What microbiologists see when they look at Da Vinci’s drawings
The microbial composition of art pieces can reveal interesting facts about their past and the journey they made.
Leonardo da Vinci and the inner workings of the human heart
The study sheds light on questions asked by Leonardo da Vinci 500 years ago, and shows how the shape of these muscles impacts heart performance and heart failure.
Major Leonardo da Vinci exhibition begins at the Louvre
The Musée du Louvre has opened a major exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci, commemorating the 500-year anniversary of his death.
Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test
Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked.
What’s new with Leonardo da Vinci
As history marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, several news stories have just come out revealing more interesting details about the Renaissance artist.
How Much Do You Know About Leonardo da Vinci?
Leonardo da Vinci’s “lost” painting, Salvator Mundi recently sold for a record breaking 450 million dollars! How much do you really know about the famous Renaissance man? Take this quiz to find out!
Renaissance Robotics: Leonardo da Vinci’s Lost Knight and Enlivened Materiality
The knight, when activated, would spring upright while simultaneously closing its arms in a lateral, pectoral embrace.
Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci to tour British Isles in 2016
Throughout 2016, ten of the finest drawings by Leonardo da Vinci in the Royal Collection will travel to four museums and galleries across the United Kingdom and Ireland in a new exhibition.
10 Creepy Things to See at the Louvre That Are Better Than the Mona Lisa
If you’re an ancient historian, a medievalist, or early modernist, there are so many other amazing pieces and works of art a the Louvre other than these two tourist staples. Here is my list of cool, creepy, unusual and better than the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris.
From Tempests and Hydraulic Machines to the Arno Diversion: the Historical Significance of da Vinci’s Study of Water
Reemergence of classical thought and the importance of water in society led da Vinci to pursue multiple projects regarding his study of water – culminating in the project to divert the Arno River.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Study of Light and Optics: A Synthesis of Fields in The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci’s preoccupation with the natural world led him to the fields of optics and astronomy.
Leonardo da Vinci: A Restless Life
George Bent has written about artistic production, the function of liturgical images, and institutional patronage in early Renaissance Florence
Saving Da Vinci
Studying a famous Leonardo self-portrait, a team of scientists has developed a new, nondestructive way to gauge degradation of ancient paper art and docs
The Fables of Leonardo da Vinci
When wine is consumed by the drunkard, it takes revenge on the drinker.
Leonardo’s Literary Writings: History, Genre, Philosophy
This dissertation, conceiving Leonardo as a moral philosopher, provides interpretations that lead to the conclusion that his thought pervades both his major and minor works and that these literary writings must be viewed as an extension (and result) of Leonardo’s greater notions of the world and of how all parts relate to one another.
Leonardo da Vinci painting discovered in Swiss bank vault
For centuries it was believed that Leonardo da Vinci made a pencil sketch of Isabella d’Este, but that he never completed a full portrait of the famous Renaissance noblewoman.