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.

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

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

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns stops by TODAY to discuss his new documentary, “Leonardo da Vinci,” his first film that covers a non-American topic, and chronicles the life and work of the 15th ...

These high Renaissance caricaturesque drawings are a far cry from the expected pristine beauty of da Vinci’s work that we have become accustomed to. Leonardo was captivated with the intensely ugly, he ...

Former teen heartthrobs like Leonardo DiCaprio and Keanu Reeves have celebrated big, landmark birthdays recently — which ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...