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Rather than prioritizing human beings at the pinnacle of the animal kingdom, Leonardo revered all living beings. When he compared people and animals, it’s the animals that often came out on top.
Dead five centuries, Leonardo retains a rock star’s fame, well known around the world by just one name. Here, some facts about the man and his legacy.
Leonardo’s obsession with water flowed through his technical work, his art and his scientific ideas.
Leonardo’s professional life reveals his genius for creating technologies of destruction.
His exquisite drawings suggest a particular depth of feeling for the natural world and he was attuned to the emotions of animals. Yet it seems that preservation of nature was not on Leonardo’s mind.
Leonardo’s interest in the human form and replicating human bodily movement foreshadow ideas present in modern robotics.
When two founding partners of the European Union are at loggerheads, something is very wrong.
Painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, mathematician, anatomist: has anyone ever surpassed the genius of Leonardo?
The story of this video game speaks to what seems a powerful political moment, of an American nation literally at war with itself.
Some classic tales about the way artists can mess with your mind.
Research shows paintings aren’t always good investments. Sky-high prices paid for high-end art are likely due to other factors.
Salvator Mundi is the most expensive painting ever to be sold. It remains to be seen who bought it and where it will be kept.
Films motivate people to travel to locations previously unknown. In the process, tourists become a lot like spiritual seekers.
We don’t know much about the origins of most human achievements – scientific and otherwise. Like evolution, does progress occur as random insights are selected for or against?
People who have an extreme preference for using their right hand may be worse at maths, according to new research.
Welcome to the world of cloths and materials that change depending on your mood.
In future, we’ll all need to be a little more like Leonardo da Vinci.
Before LOLcats, there were LEOcats.
He may not have invented the helicopter, but the real man is more than worthy of the myth.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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