Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the “Mona Lisa” and a symbol of the Renaissance, was only half-Italian, his mother a slave from the Caucasus, new research revealed on Tuesday.

A new study examining some of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches in the Codex Arundel reveals the artist calculated the earth's ...

When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, he may have experimented with lead oxide in his base layer, resulting in trace amounts of a compound called plumbonacrite.It ...

Scientists have discovered a new secret in Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa. AP “In this case, it’s interesting to see that indeed there is a specific technique for the ground layer of ...

Journal Reference: Morteza Gharib, Chris Roh, Flavio Noca. Leonardo da Vinci’s Visualization of Gravity as a Form of Acceleration. Leonardo, 2022; 21 DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02322; ...

Caltech engineer Mory Gharib was poring over the digitized notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci one day ... discovery in a new paper published in the journal Leonardo, noting that, by modern ...

The team’s research is published in the MIT Press journal Leonardo. Da Vinci was an inventor, artist, engineer, architect, and scientist. He kept busy. It seems unsurprising that someone who in ...

After Leonardo, Dutch master Rembrandt may have used a similar recipe when he was painting in the 17th century; Gonzalez and other researchers have previously found plumbonacrite in his work, too.

LAS VEGAS, March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The owners of the only sculpture authenticated to be from the hand of the Renaissance master, Leonardo da Vinci, are announcing the availability of a ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a genius of the ages ... Scholars found several sketches of wheel lock mechanisms in Da Vinci's journal, but some argue that the genius may have been caught up in a matter ...

Da Vinci's ideas about gravity preceded even ... at Caltech and lead author of the paper published in the journal Leonardo, said in a statement. Here's a quick thought experiment about how gravity ...

Leonardo da Vinci may be better known for painting the "Mona Lisa" than for writing thousands of pages of journal entries. But playwright Mary Zimmerman was so intrigued by his writing that she ...