Most people are familiar with Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man: A nude man, with his arms and legs stretched, inside a square within a circle. But few know the story behind the drawing — what ...

He even studied ancient sources, which led to his famous depiction of The Vitruvian Man. Leonardo da Vinci believed extensive knowledge of human anatomy was essential to depicting the human form.

Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter ... as a serious and slightly feeble old man. Minus Points for: Copy-Cats.

Some five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci sketched what he believed was the perfectly proportioned male body. Now, scientists have compared the 'Vitruvian Man' with nearly 64,000 physically ...

It has been 486 years since the man often hailed as the archetypal ... Historians believe the time da Vinci lived in the rooms coincides with the creation of his most famous painting, the Mona ...

While that is certainly the case with his paintings, "Leonardo Da Vinci" does a convincing job of peeling back the layers of what animated the man who created truly animating works of art.

“The Blood of Man” was a strong start for Season 2 of Da Vinci’s Demons. What it lacked in thematic substance it more than made up for in content and did a great job of building on the ...

While that is certainly the case with his paintings, “Leonardo Da Vinci” does a convincing job of peeling back the layers of what animated the man who created truly animating works of art.