Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t plan to pursue a film on Leonardo da Vinci, his first non-American subject. But ...

Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

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, ...

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

Monday, November 18 at 8 Pt. 1Tuesday, November 19 at 8 Pt. 2Episodes repeat at 10 PM A 15th century polymath of soaring ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

Leonardo da Vinci vs. Michelangelo (with assists from Machiavelli) in Gary Graves' compelling drama at Berkeley City Club.

We might think that the artists of the Annunciation Triptych are offering us an extremely literal illustration. It’s as if ...

For the first time, a robot has been trained to perform surgical procedures by watching videos of expert surgeons, marking a ...

The process of ‘imitation learning’ to train surgical robots removes the necessity to program robots with each move required ...

Stacks of books have been written about the kings and queens of England and Henry the Eighth. But few books have chronicled ...