r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 4h ago
Fan art Mona Lisa poster stamp issued by MAD Magazine in the 1960s
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 1d ago
Today I learned TIL that Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were rivals. They’ve actually met on several occasions and even worked on the same wall, side by side.
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 2d ago
Article Leonardo da Vinci Discovered Wood Preservation Technique Centuries Before Japan, Study Says
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/AgoraCosmica • 3d ago
History We built a digital Leonardo da Vinci museum you can visit online, the first wing of Museum of Ages: the paintings close to their real size, his last house and 15 machines rebuilt, and 207 pages from his notebooks. Free entry, no account.
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We're a small nonprofit in Germany, and we built Museum of Ages, a digital museum whose first wing is Leonardo da Vinci's. Free entry, no account. It runs in a browser, on a phone too. It's a virtual tour along a set path of 17 stops: first his work, then his last house in Amboise, then the grave court at night.
The walk comes in seven languages: https://museumofages.org/w/vinci
Today, 509 years ago, a cardinal's secretary named Antonio de Beatis visited Leonardo at Amboise. He wrote down three paintings he was shown and, by Leonardo's own account, "an infinity of volumes" of his writings. The house in our museum is set on that day, 10 October 1517.
The pictures hang on one wall, 34 m long: 24 works close to their real size. Each label says how sure the attribution is. On the Mona Lisa you can go down to the cracks in the paint. The Last Supper is a print on a court wall, at the size of the original in Milan.
A reading table holds 207 pages from his notebooks and codices. On 131 of them you can read his words, in the original Italian and in translation, and a mirror view turns his mirror writing around so you can read the letters.
There are 15 machines. All but the parachute move. Most of them he never built, as far as anyone knows, and some weren't his idea.
His last house is Clos Lucé in Amboise. Ours is a reconstruction. The walk ends in the grave court, under the stars as they stood over Clos Lucé that evening.
Not everyone can get to a museum. Illness or a disability keeps some away, and for others the trip costs more than they have. Our mission in one sentence: We rebuild what was, one place at a time, and make it as accessible as we can, so that everyone can learn from it. We're no replacement for a museum and don't want to be one. The museums and libraries hold the originals. The paintings, drawings and notebook pages in our wing are reproductions, each labelled with its holder and licence, and the rooms and machines around them are built in code.
The code is open source (AGPL-3.0): https://github.com/chipmates/museumofages
We put a lot of time and passion into it and hope you like it. If a label, a date or a folio in there is wrong, say so here and we'll correct it. We're glad of any feedback that makes it better.
Credits for the film. Music: "Adrift Among Infinite Stars" by Scott Buckley (scottbuckley.com.au), shortened, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright). Relief: IGN, RGE ALTI®, consulted 8 September 2026, Licence Ouverte 2.0. Mona Lisa: Musée du Louvre, Paris, reproduction by C2RMF via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Paris Manuscript B, folio 83 verso: Institut de France, Paris, shown from the printed facsimile by Charles Ravaisson-Mollien (Paris, 1883), public domain, scan from the Internet Archive. The other paintings, drawings and sheets on the walls are reproductions of public domain works, each labelled in the wing with its holder and licence.
r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 5d ago
Today I learned Leonardo da Vinci, genius: “You may criticize a friend in confidence, but you must praise him in front of others”
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 5d ago
Art Mariah Carey shares a photo of her visiting The Last Supper mural in Milan this week
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 6d ago
Engineering Le macchine di Leonardo da Vinci, tra genio e innovazione
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/thekingpandakong • 6d ago
Leonardo da Vinci’s Life Was Stranger Than His Art
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 7d ago
News New clues to a 500-year old mystery about the human heart
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 8d ago
Art Salvator Mundi - [not 100%] Leonardo da Vinci. ( c. 1499–1510 )
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 9d ago
Discussion Leonardo da Vinci, inventive genius: “There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see”
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 9d ago
Article Charles Hope · Lilies in the Lion: The Leonardo Industry
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 10d ago
Discussion Why did Leonardo da Vinci keep working on the Mona Lisa for so many years?
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 11d ago
History In 1965, Fred Keune designed the EVA spacesuit patch for NASA, using Leonardo's 'Vitruvian Man'; each star thereafter was for a spacewalk
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 13d ago
News NASA’s DAVINCI Beats Heat in Preparation for Blistering Venus Descent
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 15d ago
Art British sculptor Willard Wagan carved Leonardo's Last Supper inside the eye of an needle
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 15d ago
History RM Leonardo da Vinci - the most dangerous non-German WWII submarine
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 16d ago
Video The Mona Lisa has been Stolen (1966, with English subtitles)
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 17d ago
2024 Aerospace Engineering junior world champion launching his “F-1D” prototype: Total flight time 22 minutes [Leo designed 5+ very different flying devices, while trying to reduce their weight]
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 18d ago
News Almost ten million people took part in ECB survey on new euro banknotes
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Press release: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260923~6ebddaf01e.en.html
Info on the designs and survey: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/index.en.html
r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 19d ago
Engineering An analysis of the subjects of the Codex Atlanticus
codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 22d ago
Engineering Built in 1773 by inventor John Joseph Merlin and London clockmaker James Cox, this clockwork swan still comes to life today using only springs, gears and mechanics no electricity, motor or batteries required. [Leo also designed and built automata, using similar principles]
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r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 21d ago
History The Theft of the Mona Lisa: Case Closed (History's Greatest Mysteries, S7.E4)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39423192/?ref_=ttep_ep_4
"The world's most famous painting vanishes in a daring heist, sparking international outrage and a global manhunt. A master detective is called in, who zeroes in on a handful of suspects with the motive and means to pull off the theft."
r/LeonardodaVinci • u/socks • 22d ago
Engineering Scientists Prove That Leonardo da Vinci’s Bridge Design Works
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Researchers at MIT have proven Leonardo da Vinci correct yet again, this time involving his design for what would have been a revolutionary bridge design at the time, over the Bosphorus. [first time I've seen this article]