One of the premises of Dan Brown’s popular novel, The Da Vinci Code, was that Leonardo Da Vinci hid secrets about Christianity in his painting “The Last Supper.” Since then, everyone is looking for clues and hidden secrets in Da Vinci’s art. Surprisingly enough, it’s not fiction- Da Vinci really did hide secrets in his ...
Leonardo Da Vinci was, of course, both figuratively and literally a Renaissance man who was a certified genius in every field from sculpting to inventing. He is perhaps most famous as a painter, however; certainly nothing else connected with Da Vinci has entered into the public consciousness quite as deeply as his iconic portrait popularly ...
Although it is certainly one of the most famous drawings in the world, most admirers of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous multi-limbed man are not even aware of what it is referred to or why. Based on the belief in a system of ratios used in antiquity for the construction of “perfect” buildings, this striking depiction ...
The astonishing brilliance of color and subtlety of modeling in Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been revealed by a remarkable combination of art and science. Sophisticated computer imaging, application of color filters and tonal adjustments were applied in this completely original digital restoration by the author to reproduce the appearance of the original work ...
Leonardo da Vinci is famous as a painter, sculptor and inventor, but he also plays a large role in the development of knowledge about anatomy and the human body. In fact, even today-more than five hundred years after it was create-there is probably no more recognizable drawing of the human body than Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man.” ...
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