Lots of folks trace the origins of cinema to Eadweard Muybridge's timed sequence photography or William Kennedy Dickson's kinetoscope, but Ken Burns makes a convincing case that the true spirit of ...
Vitruvian Man. (Leonardo da Vinci/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of ...
A longstanding mystery surrounding the Vitruvian man – yes, that Vitruvian man – has a new solution. The weird part? It comes from inside your mouth. You know the Vitruvian Man. He’s perhaps second ...
Ken Burns documentaries are their own category. There are documentaries, and then there are Ken Burns documentaries. Burns' latest, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon, "Leonardo da Vinci" (PBS), ...
More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. “Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson’s “Glass ...
Ken Burns named his company Florentine Films because one of his partners was from Florence — the one in Northampton, Mass., not the one in Tuscany. But it’s certainly fitting to see that credit at the ...
Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon tell IndieWire about the visual tricks that opened up the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci in their two-part PBS documentary series. Lots of folks trace ...