Today marks the 500th anniversary of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci’s death. Dubbed the “Universal Genius” and the “Renaissance Man”, da Vinci was born in 1452, in the Italian town ...

A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder, has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. The castle is home to one of Scotland's richest landowners and contains one of the ...

Sotheby’s auction house filed a pre-emptive lawsuit Monday seeking to absolve itself from an international art feud involving the $80 million sale of Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Salvator Mundi." MANHATTAN ...

What a delight it is to be reminded that the creative endeavors of artists living today can reconnect us so exquisitely to both the vitality and frustrations of an artist who lived 500 years ago.

A new method for measuring carbon uptake in trees highlights the potential vulnerability of large trees to drought conditions. Leonardo da Vinci's 'Rule of Trees' for illustrating trees has been ...

A ‘Rule of Trees’ developed by Leonardo da Vinci to describe how to draw trees has been largely adopted by science when ...

This playful movie uses stop-motion and hand-drawn animation to pay homage to Leonardo as a thinker and tinkerer. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Director Jim Capobianco's film brings the legendary inventor's final years to life through hand-crafted stop-motion and 2D.

Jim Capobianco and Pierre-Luc Grandjon's playful animated feature concerns the later years of the artist. By Frank Scheck It’s rare that animated films set out to be educational. But that is ...

A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder, has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. Police said that the thieves posed as visitors to the castle, in Dumfries and ...