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Da Vinci Instrument Built and Played for the First Time, After 500 Years

November 20, 2013

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A Polish pianist built an instrument from designer Leonardo Da Vinci’s 500-year-old plans and played it for the first time.

Jen Markham explains.

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Mona Lisa’s Supposed Skeleton May Finally Solve Centuries-Old Mystery

August 16, 2013

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Researchers in Florence, Italy, are opening a centuries-old family tomb in hopes of solving one of the art world’s most pressing mysteries. The tomb in question belongs to the family of Lisa Gherardini, the 16th century Florentine woman thought to have been the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”

According to NBC, a team of specialists have begun a series of DNA tests on three different skeletons found in an Ursuline convent in Florence. The bones were originally discovered in 2012 and are believed to include the remains of Gherardini, the wife of a merchant who at one point lived across the street from da Vinci.

Now, researchers are turning to the Gherardini family tomb, located in Florence’s Basilica della Santissima Annuziata, where they hope to excavate the skeletons of the supposed muse’s sons. The experts plan on comparing DNA evidence from the convent excavation to the bones in the basilica in order to verify that they indeed have access to Mrs. Gherardini’s remains.

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Neuroscience And Art: Margaret Livingstone Explains How Artists Take Advantage Of Human Visual Processing (VIDEO)

January 11, 2013

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The Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Have you ever wondered why? Leonardo Da Vinci was masterful at manipulating our own visual shortcomings to make us feel something beautiful, complicated, even unsettling. There’s just something about her smile.

Dr. Margaret Livingstone, a visual neurophysiologist at Harvard, knows this all too well. I recently spoke with her about how our visual systems have evolved to process one of the inventions that sets us apart from non-human animals–art.

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Da Vinci Instrument Built and Played for the First Time, After 500 Years

A Polish pianist built an instrument from designer Leonardo Da Vinci’s 500-year-old plans and played it for the first time.

Jen Markham explains.

Mona Lisa’s Supposed Skeleton May Finally Solve Centuries-Old Mystery

Neuroscience And Art: Margaret Livingstone Explains How Artists Take Advantage Of Human Visual Processing (VIDEO)

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