Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last ...

A network of secret tunnels drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 has now been discovered beneath an Italian castle.

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out-of-the-world revolutions in the arts arena. Be it unique painting ...

Leonardo is thought to have been born on April 15 1452 in Anchiano, a small hamlet near the town of Vinci, close to Florence. His mother was a 16-year-old peasant girl called Caterina di Meo Lippi, ...

The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...

‘The Last Supper’ is a mural created by da Vinci and ... the world how da Vinci went around anatomy, measuring, and blending together the human body. It is a pen-and-ink drawing that shows ...

I remember when, as a child, I fought my way to the front of a queue of sweaty tourists in the Louvre, only to be pulled aside by a security guard who mistook my enthusiasm for malign intent. When I ...