Leonardo Da Vinci

Culture
by Carol King |
The woman portrayed in the ‘Mona Lisa’ is not Lisa Gherardini according to an Italian historian.Going against the traditional view regarding the identity of…
Culture
by Carol King |
Scientific tests conducted by a Swiss art foundation reveal that a painting of the ‘Mona Lisa’ unveiled last year is possibly an early version of Leonard Da…
Culture
by Carol King |
‘The Da Vinci Code’ author Dan Brown has announced that his next novel will be set in the heart of Italy.Scheduled for release in North America on 14 May,…
Culture
by Carol King |
NASA scientists have beamed an image of the ‘Mona Lisa’ nearly 240,000 miles to a spacecraft at the moon, making a major breakthrough in laser communication.…
Culture
by Carol King |
Experts believe they have discovered the location of the landscape shown in the ‘Mona Lisa’.Leonardo Da Vinci painted valleys, mountains, hills, a river and a…
Culture
by Carol King |
A bridge designed in 1502 by Leonardo da Vinci will be built over the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the…
Culture
by Carol King |
Paris’ Louvre museum has rebuffed a request to allow the Mona Lisa to be displayed in Italy next year.Italian campaigners have collected more than 150,000…
Culture
by Carol King |
The genius of Leonardo da Vinci is now revealed in the virtual world as his ‘Codex Atlanticus’ (Atlantic Codex) has been digitised.Leonardo’s largest bound set…
Culture
by Gabi Logan |
The original mould by Leonardo da Vinci's 1508 sculpture study "Horse and Rider" is touring North America and the UK in the first-ever public exhibition of a…
Culture
by Gabi Logan |
After months of back and forth between Florence's mayor, the head of the city's museums, and the Italian Minister of Culture, the controversial search for…