When Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ was sold in 2017 for $450 million it caused a sensation. Dismissed as an anonymous ‘wreck’ just 12 years before, it had become the single most ...

For [a] biography, that would normally be the kiss ... and close-ups of nature, Burns’ Leonardo da Vinci provides a departure from his playbook of archived footage to deliver a lyrical film ...

In the quiet German town of Mannheim, two radical inventions—the bicycle and the automobile—took their first wobbly rides and ...

What secrets do history’s luminaries share? Widely considered to be one of today’s most insightful biographers, Walter ...

The first one I read is by Walter Isaacson whose biography, titled simply ... I have copies of his biographies of Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci on my bookshelf, awaiting a time in retirement ...

The White House press secretary is shaming some members of the Washington media and fielding softballs from others — all with ...

If writing a biography is difficult, writing a biography of someone ... The locus classicus for such hagiography is the treatment of Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in Giorgio Vasari’s ...

Gian Giacomo Caprotti, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, created a sketch from around ... or hobbyhorse in 1819. Image via Wiki Commons. Karl von Drais invented the bicycle not in a flash of whimsy ...

open image in gallery Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification (Institut de France Manuscript M ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter ...