Lots of folks trace the origins of cinema to Eadweard Muybridge’s timed sequence photography or William Kennedy Dickson’s kinetoscope, but Ken Burns makes a convincing case that the true spirit of ...

Ken Burns documentaries are their own category. There are documentaries, and then there are Ken Burns documentaries. Burns' latest, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon, "Leonardo da Vinci" (PBS), ...

Inventor Leonardo da Vinci gets to play action hero in two upcoming Hollywood films where he fights supernatural forces and saves Europe from returning to the Dark Ages. It's somehow fitting for the ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a bastard -- in the original sense of the word. That seems to be the salient point of the new documentary “Da Vinci & the Code He Lived By” airing Sunday on the History Channel.

Henry Ford Museum is opening "DaVinci The Exhibition", showcasing 65 full-scale reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's ...

If you were friends with Leonardo da Vinci, there’s a variety of favors you could have asked him for. You could have asked him to paint you a fine portrait, or to build you a flying machine, or to ...

DUBUQUE — Da Vinci: The Artist. Da Vinci: The Inventor. Da Vinci: The Warrior. Da Vinci: The Anatomist. Da Vinci: The Architect. Da Vinci: The Chef. Take your pick of titles. Leonardo da Vinci ...

In 1505, around the time Leonardo da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, he was also sketching designs for a helicopter. How's that for a Renaissance man? The helicopter's design challenge was that the ...

Wearing leather and bad boy stubble, Leonardo da Vinci gets a sexy update from the Starz' series costume designer, who drew from renaissance paintings and anti-hero influences for the historical hero.

David S. Goyer traffics in superheroes, and he's found one in 15th century Florence. The co-writer of the "Dark Knight" trilogy and the upcoming "Man of Steel," has imagined for us a Leonardo Da Vinci ...

Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon tell IndieWire about the visual tricks that opened up the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci in their two-part PBS documentary series. Lots of folks trace ...