Most of my readers are quite familiar with the great rulers of the Renaissance: Henry VIII and his consecutive marital ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s achievements are so numerous and prolific that it is difficult to narrow them down to the most important ...

PROLOGUE: The Mirror and the Mind I have spent a lifetime studying reflection, yet I find myself now reflecting upon a ...

Rivalry” Tuesday, July 15 at  9:00 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the PBS app  New Three-Part Series from the... Read More ...

Photo: Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty details the lives of three artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, portrayed here ...

A third shape hidden in the infamous Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than ...

Scientists tested a 500-year-old flying machine design by Leonardo da Vinci using computers and found it could make today's ...

I was driving with my kids recently when we passed a billboard with a familiar face on it: the Mona Lisa. From the backseat ...

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a mysterious treasure of Renaissance art. A dentist believes he may have uncovered one ...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has announced that his company is approaching a major breakthrough—one that echoes the ...

This geometric figure — first identified by dentist William Bonwill in 1864 — is formed by connecting the two points where ...