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2017-11-18T13:01:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/9e3/20171118131121002_hd.jpgWalter Isaacson talked about his book Leonardo da Vinci, in which he examines the ...

Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan. And it’s in this capacity that ...

Would you hire this guy? The candidate is hopeless with deadlines and alternates between undisciplined meandering and grandiose hyperactivity. When he isn’t sketching birds, he’s making fruitless ...

NEW YORK — Researching the life of Leonardo da Vinci left Walter Isaacson in a playful mood. “He’s the most fun, joyous person I can imagine,” says the best-selling biographer, whose “Leonardo da ...

PARIS (AP) — Much about Leonardo Da Vinci remains an enigma: the smile of the “Mona Lisa”; why the world’s most famous painter left so many works unfinished; and more recently, who bought the ...

It’s a match made in (Hollywood) heaven: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will play Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci in a film based on a biography written by Walter Isaacson, set to be published in ...

Christopher Hampton, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Father” and “Dangerous Liaisons,” is set to adapt Walter Isaacson’s acclaimed biography “Leonardo Da Vinci” for Universal Pictures.

Stamford’s Avon Theatre will be hosting two special screenings in the coming weeks. Exhibition of Screen, the award-winning cinematic series that explores the biographies of history’s most revered ...

Paramount has hired high-profile writer John Logan to adapt Walter Isaacson’s biography “Leonardo da Vinci,” with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the painter/scientist. DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson are ...

Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan town of Vinci, Italy, emerged as a quintessential Renaissance polymath. The illegitimate son of Piero da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and ...

A new TV series about Leonardo da Vinci that portrays the Italian artist and thinker as a gay outsider has reopened a long-running debate about his sexuality. Is $450m Leonardo da Vinci painting a ...