Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ... Leonardo also acquired more and more books and absorbed the teachings of his ancient predecessors. Most notably, he began studying ...

The only such treatise to have survived from antiquity, the Ten Books is a classic ... and a square—and it looked uncannily like Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Everybody knows Leonardo ...

“Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life” is a fascinating biographical investigation and a staunch piece of social criticism.

The new study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of ...