The decorated filmmaker, along with co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon, open up about their new film "Leonardo da ...

Ken Burns is dramatically changing direction with his monumental two-part PBS “Leonardo da Vinci” series: It is the first ...

Ken Burns has told me time and again, in various interviews about his various films, that all his films are about the same ...

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, ...

The award-winning filmmaker, who received the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal this year, has been visiting ...

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

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

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

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These high Renaissance caricaturesque drawings are a far cry from the expected pristine beauty of da Vinci’s work that we have become accustomed to. Leonardo was captivated with the intensely ugly, he ...

At the King’s Gallery, the museum that is part of Buckingham Palace, Drawing the Italian Renaissance ... about this remarkable crucible of creativity. Leonardo da Vinci, A Rearing Horse ...

QUESTION: Why did Leonardo da Vinci draw so many weapons of war if he was a pacifist, as stated by a recent art exhibition? While Leonardo (1452-1519) was conflicted on war, he can hardly be ...