The award-winning filmmaker, who received the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal this year, has been visiting ...

Johns Hopkins art history professor Stephen Campbell complicates received narratives of the renaissance painter.

Ken Burns added: "He's an anatomist, and he's a botanist, and he's interested in flight, and he's a sculptor, and he's a painter, and he's an artist, and he's all of those. The reason why it's such a ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester ... The Codex Leicester (Credits: Wikipedia) Imagine having in your hands a piece of history painstakingly crafted by one of the greatest minds that ever ...

Displayed in a great hall in a building in downtown Rochester, a three-column work of stained glass—considered one of the finest in the country—depicts 2,000 years of medical history in 12 panels.

Now, a new biography, "Reckless Daughter ... could fetch more than $100 million at auction It’s the first Leonardo da Vinci painting to be sold at a public auction and is expected to fetch ...

Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

MY SAY Ken Burns launched his own illustrious career 43 years ago with "Brooklyn Bridge," and until now, never left these ...

The celebrated documentarian co-directs this two-night extravaganza on PBS about the towering genius of the Renaissance.