Corporate funding for LEONARDO da VINCI was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by The Better Angels Society and by its individual ...

Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

On 25 January 1504, Florence’s most prominent artists gathered to advise on an appropriate location for Michelangelo’s nearly finished David. Among them was Leonardo ...

The locus classicus for such hagiography is the treatment of Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists (1550). It is not difficult to draw a direct line from ...

Monday, November 18 at 8 Pt. 1Tuesday, November 19 at 8 Pt. 2Episodes repeat at 10 PM A 15th century polymath of soaring ...

Wrinkled faces, contorted expressions, weak bone structure, and gaudy outdated headdresses are common features which are ...

Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t plan to pursue a film on Leonardo da Vinci, his first non-American subject. But ...

The celebrated documentarian co-directs this two-night extravaganza on PBS about the towering genius of the Renaissance.

QUESTION: Why did Leonardo da Vinci draw so many weapons of war if he was a pacifist, as stated by a recent art exhibition?

Explore Leonardo da Vincis enduring impact on art and science, highlighting his masterpieces and innovative contributions.

This week, senior reporter Eileen Kinsella speaks to documentarian Ken Burns about his first foray outside of American ...

The drawings, sketches and cartoons in this sensational exhibition at the King's Gallery provide a glimpse behind the scenes ...