Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing of the head of a BEAR is set to fetch up to £12m at auction

Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing of the head of a BEAR is set to fetch up to £12m at auction despite measuring less than three inches square Titled ‘Head Of A Bear’, the sketch could break the record for a da Vinci drawing The piece of art is a small silverpoint drawing on a pink-beige paper … Read more

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘quick eye’ allowed him to spot tiny movements others may have missed

Leonardo da Vinci had a ‘super-fast eye’ that let him capture momentary changes like the flutter of a dragonfly wings or the ‘enigmatic magic’ of Mona Lisa’s smile. This superhuman trait is similar to one top tennis players and baseball player share and allowed the great master to capture the most minute and fleeting expressions.  … Read more

Feet of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper are revealed in ‘gigapixel’ detail by Google

The feet of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper have been revealed in gigapixel detail in a Google project that aims to bring some of the collection of Royal Academy of Arts online amid the coronavirus lockdown. The London-based academy is the latest to join the Google Arts & Culture platform, where high-res … Read more

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ close to modern proportions

Some five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci sketched what he believed was the perfectly proportioned male body. Now, scientists have compared the ‘Vitruvian Man’ with nearly 64,000 physically fit men and women and discovered da Vinci was very close to anatomical measurements of the modern-day human. The team found the groin height, shoulder width … Read more