Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of one of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of experiments to understand gravity. Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old ...

A tiny sketch of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci sold for over $12 million on Thursday, setting a new auction record for a drawing by the renaissance artist. Measuring less than 8 square inches, the item ...

A free exhibition in Washington, D.C., shows 12 pages from the multi-volume collection of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks called the Codex Atlanticus. Ralph Alswang via D.C. Public Library You won’t see ...

Leonardo da Vinci is best known for creating iconic artworks like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But the Renaissance polymath’s oeuvre stretches far beyond paintings (and art in the conventional ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci's thumbprint and preparatory sketches for some of his most famous works are going on display to the public at Buckingham Palace, in what is being billed as the ...

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...

Leonardo da Vinci not only invented the first refrigerator, self-propelled vehicle, and robot — he also invented the first drone. The designs reveal a self-operating quadcopter made of pine, equipped ...

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A collection of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci is making its first U.S. appearance in an exhibition now open in Washington, D.C. But to see it, you're going to walk past the place you might expect - ...

Nearly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci wrote what became known as the Codex Leicester. In 1994, Microsoft's Bill Gates purchased the manuscript. "Bill Gates paid $30 million for the Codex Leicester, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A curator at the Louvre Museum in Paris has stumbled upon some unknown drawings on the back of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that look like they might be by the Italian master ...