Leonardo da Vinci

Drawing from Life

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In the past, we used to rely on artists to bring us into the mysterious world of biology. In the 1500s Leonardo da Vinci revealed the glories of human anatomy. And around 1900, a German biologist named Ernst Haeckel used his incredible drawings of microbes and larger creatures to promote his ideas about evolution. The […]

The (New) Last Supper

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Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci: Theater impresario

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Mona Lisa

Biographer Walter Isaacson, on Leonardo da Vinci’s art and science

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