Da Vinci would hardly be alone in pushing deadlines, to be fair. And perhaps the more incomplete his projects, the more mythologized they’d become.

These and other strange noises will echo at the Center for Puppetry Arts this month as “Avanti Da Vinci,” a puppet show for older teens and adults, is restaged for the first time in 17 years.

Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up complex machines centuries ahead of his time ...

As seen above, da Vinci wrote his scientific notes in mirror-writing. This may have been to discourage spying, or it may have been because he was left-handed and it prevented the ink from smudging.

The controversial effort to find out whether a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece lies beneath a fresco in Florence has been suspended without resolving a mystery that some have compared to a ...

Inventor Leonardo da Vinci gets to play action hero in two upcoming Hollywood films where he fights supernatural forces and saves Europe from returning to the Dark Ages. It's somehow fitting for ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up complex machines centuries ahead of his time ...