The “Salvador Mundi,” a $450 million portrait, is the most expensive artwork ever to be sold. In 2018, it was displayed at ...
Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t plan to pursue a film on Leonardo da Vinci, his first non-American subject. But ...
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, ...
Monday, November 18 at 8 Pt. 1Tuesday, November 19 at 8 Pt. 2Episodes repeat at 10 PM A 15th century polymath of soaring ...
Italian polymath, painter, inventor and astounding genius Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most celebrated artists and scientists of all time, yet seeing his works is typically out of reach for the ...
The engineering for this gilded copper ball, completed during his apprenticeship with artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, made a lasting impact on Leonardo da Vinci. Checking for lightning ...
Stacks of books have been written about the kings and queens of England and Henry the Eighth. But few books have chronicled ...
This week, senior reporter Eileen Kinsella speaks to documentarian Ken Burns about his first foray outside of American ...
Leonardo da Vinci, who lived from 1452-1519, was an artist and inventor whose talents included architecture, anatomy, engineering and sculpture, as well as painting. But art historians have ...