Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?

Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...

Scientists have confirmed Leonardo da Vinci’s bloodline by tracing matching DNA in living male-line descendants.

Through analysis of ancient land registries, the authors also identified seven Da Vinci family homes in Vinci’s village and castle, including two properties owned by Leonardo himself ...

Researchers are yet to verify whether the supposed descendants like drawing weird prototype helicopter things.

Through analysis of ancient land registries, the authors identified seven Da Vinci family homes in Vinci’s village and castle, as well as two properties owned by Leonardo himself, inherited from ...

He's also one of the few Hollywood actors to really pick and choose his projects, never busying himself up too much ... Named after the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci because his mother felt ...