Leonardo da Vinci, Ken Burns

The engineering for this gilded copper ball, completed during his apprenticeship with artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, made a lasting impact on Leonardo da Vinci. Checking for ...
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 ...
A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.