Dumb Decor
In 1497, Leonardo finished his fresco of The Last Supper on a wall in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Around 1650, the monks decided they needed a new doorway into the refectory, so they...
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Lefty Genius
Leonardo’s notebook writing famously runs from right to left across the page, with its letters reversed, best read with the help of a mirror. Scholars have debated why Leonardo wrote this way. One...
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Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli (author of The Prince) were close friends. The post Artsy and Crafty appeared first on Sarah Albee.
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Battle of the Bulge-ing Geniuses
Did you know Michelangelo and Leonardo couldn’t stand one another? In the first decade of the sixteenth century, the arch rivals were asked to create murals on the same wall of the Council Hall of...
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The parachute was invented between 1480-5 by Leonardo da Vinci, who sketched one in his notebook. In 2000, a skydiver successfully tested Leonardo’s parachute design. The post Aw, Chute. appeared first...
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Parachute Plans
Leonardo da Vinci‘s brilliant mind was capable of imagining a wide range of inventions. He invented ways to divert rivers to prevent their flooding. He invented screw threads, transmission gears,...
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