Leonardo da Vinci is probably the most famous artist of the Renaissance Period and perhaps all time. But what many people don\'t know is that he wasn\'t just a genius in art but he also excelled in sculpting, architecture, and inventing. Leonardo was born in a small stone house on April 15, 1452. ...

Each day hundreds of tourists flock to the Louvre Museum in Paris to admire the most famous painting in the world, the "Mona Lisa." This artist's legacy lives today as his creations continue to inspire artists, scientists, and the common man even four hundred years after his death. This artist, Le...

Geniuses come few and far between in history. Hippocrates came in the late BC period. Einstein came in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Leonardo came in between the two of them, but is not recognized as well as they are. He was a brilliant human being. He was a master in the fields of paint...

Francis Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland, on October 28, 1909, the second of five children to Edward and Winfrey Bacon. The Bacon family lived there until 1914, when Edward took up work in the War Office in London, England. After 1918, the family moved back and forth from London to Dublin. During...