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A group of French analysts suggest that the Renaissance painter, who liked to experiment, used a mixture of oil with lead oxide for the first layer of La Gioconda

Recalling his mother’s final days in Artforum’s September 1989 issue, the late critic Pier Luigi Tazzi wrote that she spoke to him “with the same cautious delicacy that two lovers might use upon discovering, joined in an embrace or immediately after, the strongest, most mysterious, and serious part of the love that unites them and reveals them—and this gentleness covers all violence, as it does all pain.” Read in light of ongoing discussions around caregiving and the relational work of...

From a medieval monk mixed with a fish to the call of an extinct Hawaiian bird, this entertaining show revels in nature’s marvels – real or otherwise

The sketches of Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci suggest that his understanding of gravity was centuries ahead of his time. Da Vinci's sketches, which have been neglected for decades, reveal [...]

When Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t painting a masterpiece or dreaming up flying machines, he was pondering the mysteries of gravity. The Renaissance t

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An amazing discovery suggests that da Vinci may have pre-empted Galileo and Newton's discoveries about gravity by at least a century.

Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's understanding of gravity — though not wholly accurate — was centuries ahead of his time. In an article published in the journal Leonardo, the researchers draw upon a fresh look at...

Leonardo da Vincis centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein.

A new look at da Vinci’s papers reveals his insightful attempts to probe the nature of gravity 500 years ago