Leonardo da Vinci is at the centre of a new TV series, in which the timeless artist and polymath is played by Aidan Turner. Leonardo, which arrives on Amazon Prime this Friday (16 April), follows ...

Research into the iconic polymath's parentage has claimed da Vinci's mother was not a Tuscan peasant, as previously thought, but a slave from the Caucasus. Leonardo da Vinci was only half-Italian ...