American aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright are often credited with building and flying the world’s first airplane, but after seeing “Da Vinci Machines and Robotics” at Cranbrook Institute of ...

Following a buildable Mona Lisa, Lego has tackled another da Vinci creation with a 493-piece replica of the renaissance polymath’s flying machine. It still can’t actually fly, but a system of strings, ...

LEGO is getting pretty creative with their latest LEGO Icons set as they bring Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machine to life. Originally designed in the late 15th century, this machine was a visionary's ...

Following the Mona Lisa Art set that launched earlier this year, LEGO is diving back into Leonardo da Vinci with a new 493-piece set inspired by the flying contraption (ornithopter) outlined in his ...

Students observe a work table where visitors can draw their own Mona Lisa portrait. In the background, Leonardo da Vinci's iconic Last Supper reproduction covers the wall. Iconic religious paintings, ...

Leonardo da Vinci was, by any metric, a genius – but he was still limited by his time. The man may have been a secret authority on anatomy, music, art, engineering, and even frickin’ paleogeography, ...

What: Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin. When: Next Sunday through Nov. 9. Museum hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m ...

What can A.I. teach us about Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci? A lot, as we discovered from a new online retrospective from Google Arts and Culture that’s powered by machine learning.

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