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A third shape hidden in the infamous Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than ...
Art can seem hard to understand. Explore the curious mind of Leonardo da Vinci and how he viewed art to learn how to view, and appreciate, art.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a mysterious treasure of Renaissance art. A dentist believes he may have uncovered one ...
Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter. He created thousands of drawings in his notebooks in which he wrote obsessively, and while ...
One of the masterpieces attributed to Leonardo da Vinci has crossed a symbolic milestone by becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold. It is Salvator Mundi, a painting rediscovered in the ...
A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical ...
Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ‘The Last Supper’ to two versions of ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’ ...
The study, published in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, reads: ‘For over 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci’s geometric ...
Photo: Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty details the lives of three artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, portrayed here ...
This geometric figure — first identified by dentist William Bonwill in 1864 — is formed by connecting the two points where ...
This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...
The Vitruvian Man - a famous drawing by Rennaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci in 1490 - depicts a nude male figure with his ...