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Topic: Leonardo da Vinci

Self portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci and The Last Supper (Photo illustration by Salon/PBS)

PBS' mesmerizing "Leonardo Da Vinci"

Melanie McFarland
This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows two environmental activists from the collective dubbed "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Retaliation) gesturing as they stand in front of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (La Joconde) painting after hurling soup at the artwork, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024. (DAVID CANTINIAUX/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

Protesters make a mess of the Mona Lisa

Kelly McClure
Squeezing Grapefruit (Getty Images/Juj Winn)

Food is a symbol in political protest

Ekaterina Gladkova - The Conversation
Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, Mona Lisa (Raphael GAILLARDE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Mona Lisa attacked with slice of cake

Joy Saha
The Lost Leonardo (Sony Pictures Classics)

"Lost Leonardo" is a slick art mystery

Gary M. Kramer
Jean-Pierre Muller (Getty/Jean-Pierre Muller)

Neuroscientists: Mona Lisa was faking it

Nicole Karlis
A visitor takes pictures of Leonardo da Vinci’s "Adoration of the Three Wise Men", returned to the public of the Uffizi museum after 6 years of study and restoration, in Florence, Italy, Monday, March 27, 2017. Painted in 1481, it is one of the most important works of the early Leonardo. (Maurizio Degl' Innocenti/ANSA via AP) (AP)

8 things you may not know about Leonardo

Richard Gunderman
The pyramid of the Louvre museum (Getty/Francois Guillot)

Don't judge a building by its walls

Noah Charney

Big penises were for ogres

Kali Holloway - Alternet
Leonardo DiCaprio (AP/Cliff Owen)

Leo DiCaprio's Mona Lisa

Anna Silman

Secrets of the world's most famous drawing

Laura Miller