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; ...

Leonardo da Vinci's schematics and notes for his experiment on the equivalence of the effects of gravity and acceleration. Credit: Gharib et al., 2023/British Library ...

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...

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 ...

In his notes, he'd begun decoding the strange correlation between gravity and acceleration -- similar to what enamored Einstein about 400 years later. Da Vinci's ideas about gravity preceded even ...

Leonardo da Vinci may be better known for painting the "Mona Lisa" than for writing thousands of pages of journal entries. ... Mary Zimmerman wrote "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" in 1993.

Leonardo da Vinci was a genius of the ages, born to unwed parents near Florence, Italy, in 1452. Davinci's mother soon married another man, leaving young Leonardo to grow up on his biological ...