leonardo da vinci

June 15, 2014
Lisa Gherardini (aka Mona Lisa), the wife of Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was born on this day in 1479 in Florence.

May 28, 2014
oupacademic : Very Short Fact : Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper Today in 1999, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.

May 2, 2014
Andy Warhol, Last Supper, 1986.

October 10, 2013
A painting kept in a Swiss bank vault is claimed by some to be a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

September 18, 2013
Leonardo da Vinci.

August 22, 2013
A Very Short Fact from the VSIs

August 20, 2013
The BBC reports that scientists in Florence have opened a tomb to extract DNA they hope will identify the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

August 10, 2013
Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds (by airandspace ) Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds,” will be exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., from 13 September until 22 October.

August 5, 2013
A twenty-one-year-old Leonardo da Vinci dated this landscape drawing 540 years ago on August 5, 1473.