MAPS by Leonardo da Vinci, which have been assembled for the first time in his native Tuscany and date back 500 years, have helped to identify the enigmatic landscapes in some of his most famous ...

CityLab has recently published an article outlining Leonardo da Vinci's Town Plan of Imola, an "ichnographic" map from 1502, and the earliest of its kind in existence. Rather than utilizing ...

An exhibition at the French château where Leonardo spent his final years looks at the many inventions the polymath drew from ...

Leonardo da Vinci studied anatomy to gain a deeper knowledge of how the body worked. Leonardo da Vinci believed extensive knowledge of human anatomy was essential to depicting the human form ...

A new paper makes the case for an unexpected connection between the Renaissance drawing and the structure of a human jaw. Not ...

The 700-odd pages contained da Vinci’s notes on architecture, geometry, music, mechanics, navigation and maps. Hidden away in the middle was a sketch of a machine with 13 interlocking wheels and ...

Key Terms in Leonardo da Vinci's History Renaissance The Renaissance spanned from the 14th to 17th centuries, emerging in Europe in the aftermath of a devastating pandemic that had ravaged the ...