“Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk” by Leonardo da Vinci is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist. (Thinkstock) The name Leonardo da Vinci evokes an image of a cultured Renaissance genius who ...

Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan. And it’s in this capacity that ...

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Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan town of Vinci, Italy, emerged as a quintessential Renaissance polymath. The illegitimate son of Piero da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and ...

Would you hire this guy? The candidate is hopeless with deadlines and alternates between undisciplined meandering and grandiose hyperactivity. When he isn’t sketching birds, he’s making fruitless ...

"We wished, in order to pay homage to the artist, to be able to show the entirety of Leonardo Da Vinci's career and his development and to explain, ultimately, the sense of his life," curator Vincent ...

NEW YORK — Researching the life of Leonardo da Vinci left Walter Isaacson in a playful mood. “He’s the most fun, joyous person I can imagine,” says the best-selling biographer, whose “Leonardo da ...

We are delighted to be giving away signed copies of Walter Isaacson’s new book on Leonardo da Vinci, and his books on Albert Einstein and the innovators at the forefront of computer science when the ...

Stamford’s Avon Theatre will be hosting two special screenings in the coming weeks. Exhibition of Screen, the award-winning cinematic series that explores the biographies of history’s most revered ...

Christopher Hampton, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Father” and “Dangerous Liaisons,” is set to adapt Walter Isaacson’s acclaimed biography “Leonardo Da Vinci” for Universal Pictures.

2017-11-18T13:01:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/9e3/20171118131121002_hd.jpgWalter Isaacson talked about his book Leonardo da Vinci, in which he examines the ...