Scientists have wanted to study Leonardo da Vinci to see if his genetics hold the key to his genius for years. But there's a ...
Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to ...
Researchers working on the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project believe the Renaissance Man left his DNA on the chalk drawing titled ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...
Learn about the Leonardo DNA Project and the diverse biological traces that survive on the surface of historical artifacts.
In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...
Red chalk drawing called Holy Child that has been examined by scientists could hold the key to the legendary historical ...
What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...
Leonardo da Vinci, art history’s most famous southpaw, was actually ambidextrous, researchers have proven. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence conducted an in-depth study of Leonardo’s earliest known ...
It is one of the most tantalising – and entertaining – puzzles in art, stretching from the Louvre to the Loire via, well, Norfolk. And our critic thinks he has just worked it out ...
Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...