Ken Burns dives into the boundless curiosity at the core of Leonardo da Vinci's exploits in new PBS documentary.
For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.
More than half a millennium after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still one of the most well-known artists in the world. The ...
The celebrated documentarian turns his lens on the great Renaissance polymath, with mixed results.
The decorated filmmaker, along with co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon, open up about their new film "Leonardo da ...
There are, in this splendid exhibition any number of drawings squared off to be scaled up for transfer to a painting, but there are also some sheets where artists have simply drawn for the joy of it.
These high Renaissance caricaturesque drawings are a far cry from the expected pristine beauty of da Vinci’s work that we have become accustomed to. Leonardo was captivated with the intensely ugly, he ...
The free exhibit features 23 artists who use the iconic toy with the gray screen, red plastic frame and two knobs as their canvas.
A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.
This autumn seems to be the season for Old Master Drawings exhibitions! The Fondation Custodia in Paris opened a new show ...
Detail from Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin and Child with St ... Although both produced preparatory drawings, neither mural was completed, as these in-demand artists were summoned elsewhere.
In 'Leonardo da Vinci' (Princeton Univ ... The way he looks at the world in his writings, drawings, and paintings—that’s what I hope people will connect with.