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US capital hosts 12 'beautiful, glowing' Leonardo da Vinci sketches

The city of Washington, DC is hosting 12 original sketches and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci that illustrate the Renaissance master’s interests and research into fields including geometry and physics.

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Research into the iconic polymath's parentage has claimed da Vinci's mother was not a Tuscan peasant, as previously thought, but a slave from the Caucasus.

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Cake was smeared over the protective glass covering the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris on May 29, with the person described as being responsible indicating he was an environmental protester.

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The 17th century copy, best known as Hekking's Mona Lisa, exceeded estimates by some margin today Christie's auction house in Paris.

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Could Leonardo Da Vinci be the answer to tackling climate change? Researchers at the University of Cambridge think so.

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The Louvre Museum in Paris has announced it will be open day and night, on Saturday and Sunday, to mark the end of its Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition.

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Not quite cubism: 'Rubik's Mona Lisa' to go under the hammer in Paris

A street art Rubik's Cube version of the "Mona Lisa" is expected to sell for up to 150,000 euros ($166,000) when it goes under the hammer in Paris this month.

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National Gallery exhibition displays single Da Vinci painting

"The Virgin of the Rocks" was once displayed in a church in Milan that has since been destroyed.

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Mona Lisa returned to home in the Louvre after causing 'visitor jam'

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece had been moved due to renovations.

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The Italian artist, scientist and engineer died on May 2, 1519. His influence is still being felt today.

02/05/2019

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France and Italy commemorate Da Vinci's 500th anniversary

Rome and Paris are setting aside recent tensions this Thursday to honour the memory of the Renaissance genius in the town where he spent his final years.

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Watch: Leonardo da Vinci renaissance as painter is ploughed in field

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Research 'proves Da Vinci could draw with both hands'

Research from the Uffizi gallery in Florence has proved that Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci could draw and paint with both hands.

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