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The Small Horse exhibition is on at The Birley An exhibition featuring paintings of 'all things nostalgic and animal' is ...
Sure, Bill Gates is all about philanthropy these days, but even billionaires like a few indulgences. And considering that his ...
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.
Leonardo da Vinci Was the Ultimate Renaissance Man. Here Are All of His Existing Paintings, Ranked We've analyzed all of the paintings attributed to the polymath.
More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. “Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson ...
PBS’ new two-part, four-hour Leonardo da Vinci probably won’t redefine the identity of Ken Burns, renowned as a documentary chronicler of all things Americana.. But it does find the director ...
Turns throughout PBS' “Leonardo da Vinci” remind us of how similar his era was to ours. Da Vinci’s Renaissance was a time of doubt and great uncertainty. His native city of Florence, Italy ...
Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance. But, after a disagreement over money, he withheld the painting.
Ken Burns dives into the boundless curiosity at the core of Leonardo da Vinci's exploits in ... For example, I knew what he painted, but not that there were fewer than 20 paintings total, and only ...
Encore Fridays, Jan. 17 and 24, 2025 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Jan. 19 and 26 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! LEONARDO da VINCI, a new, two-part, four-hour documentary directed ...
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 ...