The decorated filmmaker, along with co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon, open up about their new film "Leonardo da ...

Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

MY SAY Ken Burns launched his own illustrious career 43 years ago with "Brooklyn Bridge," and until now, never left these ...

Monday, November 18 at 8 Pt. 1Tuesday, November 19 at 8 Pt. 2Episodes repeat at 10 PM A 15th century polymath of soaring ...

The celebrated documentarian co-directs this two-night extravaganza on PBS about the towering genius of the Renaissance.

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

The “Salvador Mundi,” a $450 million portrait, is the most expensive artwork ever to be sold. In 2018, it was displayed at ...

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Leonardo DiCaprio is at a museum ... honeymoon at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence… they were looking at a da Vinci painting, and allegedly I started kicking furiously while my mother was pregnant.

QUESTION: Why did Leonardo da Vinci draw so many weapons of war if he was a pacifist, as stated by a recent art exhibition? While Leonardo (1452-1519) was conflicted on war, he can hardly be ...

Ken Burns added: "He's an anatomist, and he's a botanist, and he's interested in flight, and he's a sculptor, and he's a painter, and he's an artist, and he's all of those. The reason why it's such a ...

Leonardo da Vinci, who lived from 1452-1519, was an artist and inventor whose talents included architecture, anatomy, engineering and sculpture, as well as painting. But art historians have ...