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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Thursday, five men appeared in the High Court in Glasgow charged with demanding £4.25m for the safe return of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna with the Yarnwinder , which was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire, in 2003. The painting - worth an estimated £30m - has been in the family of the Duke of Buccleuch for 200 years. Judge Lord Brailsford adjourned the case until later this year.
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
"Five men have appeared in court accused of demanding £4.25m for the safe return of a Leonardo da Vinci painting. The Madonna with the Yarnwinder was taken from Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, in August 2003. Its disappearance from the stately home became Britain's biggest art theft."...
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Inventor Spot (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
I'd like to think my dog is a genius even if he can't find the treat that has slipped from Leo to Leo in whatever way I arrange the Leos. Leo , short for Leonardo da Vinci, is the name of this challenging toy from (who else?) Canine Genius ! Education Entertainment Fun Home Innovation Lifestyle Pets Array
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Our Descent Into Madness (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
From Wired, check out these awesome sculptures made of old typewriter parts. Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing.
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Consumer Electronics Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Originally launched at Milan Design Week 2007 in the Sala del Cenacolo at Leonardo da Vinci in Milan Italy and subsequently launched in the U.S. October 2007 at Esquire Magazine’s penthouse apartment in Manhattan, KEF’s Muon loudspeaker is on display...
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10,000 Birds (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Who doesn’t admire a true Renaissance Man (or Woman), a versatile individual gifted in many and diverse areas? While the term itself evokes thoughts of the original Renaissance Man himself, Leonardo da Vinci, history is rich with — and some would go so far as to say written by — prestigious polymaths of every stripe. [...]
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MoPo | Geek News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
"An American dealer who in 1998 bought -- and later sold -- a mixed-media portrait of a young woman that some art and scientific experts now attribute to Leonardo da Vinci has come forward to say that she does not think it is by that Renaissance master."...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
(TrendHunter.com) British film maker Peter Greenaway has produced an amazing new film on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”. Using clever lighting, recorded singing and projectors, he brought new life to this famous…
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Gizmodo UK (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Leonardo Da Vinci might have worked painstakingly on the Mona Lisa and her enigmatic smile but the crowd at Mythbusters managed their own version in less than a second at nVidia's NVISION event this week. Of course, the duo of Adam and Jamie were going to have to pull it off in style, if they wanted to demonstrate the difference between single-core CPUs and multi-core graphics processing units (GPUs)....
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
By Liz Clemmons More than 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper," members of a Cary congregation will bring it to life this week to remember Jesus' last Passover supper.
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/Film (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Jim Hance created this wonderful parody of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting The Mona Lisa using Princess Lei from George Lucas’ Star Wars. The paining recently sold on ETSY, and unfortunately Jim has promised to never duplicate the design or make prints. The Mona Leia is hand painted with acrylics on canvas board, and framed [...]
