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Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?
Her image is everywhere from T-shirts to coffee mugs, but it was only recently that the true identity of the woman in the ...
The coming season includes new staged operatic events, visits from local and global orchestras, and nods to the 250th ...
Many great thinkers like Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton were known for their habit of daydreaming. They let their minds ...
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, plans to donate 99% of his wealth to the Gates Foundation, aiming to dissolve it by 2045.
The Courant’s arts picks for May 11-17 include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Al Stewart and Livingston Taylor, George Clinton and ...
Brian Chesky is hoping to take the company to new heights with a major rebrand. “Basically,” he says, “it’s the Airbnb of ...
Leonardo famously kept copious notebooks, replete with beautiful diagrams and notes ... are recommended to turn to Martin Kemp’s classic Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man, ...
Join Lisa Kaborycha for a series of seminars at The British Institute, recounting Renaissance folks’ daily lives and their ...