An earlier version of this obituary and an accompanying picture caption misstated the year in which Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/arts/fernando-botero-artist-of-whimsical-rotundity-is-dead-at-91.html

Borg’s previous project was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s designs for an ornithopter, an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/10000-skull-helps-breathe-new-life-ancient-art-filigree.1005865

Did you know that Louis XIV’s brother, Philippe, dressed up in drag and that Leonardo da Vinci was arrested for sodomy twice?

Source: https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2023/06/06/historical-homos-presents-the-gayest-stories-never-told/

Even though most could not comprehend the tank when it first arrived on the battlefield, humanity’s greatest dreamers—among them, H.G. Wells and Leonardo da Vinci—envisaged tanks long before their creation.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/24/ukraine-russia-war-abrams-tank-military-aid/

He said: “I am confident that if Leonardo da Vinci were looking down on us, he would 100% agree with what we’ve done.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23307957.eco-protesters-fined-painting-protest-say-da-vinci-agree/?ref=rss

In the late 1980s, Zimmerman borrowed $800 to adapt the notebooks into the wildly creative 90-minute piece “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,” which made its professional debut in 1993 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

Source: https://www.delmartimes.net/art/story/2023-01-13/the-old-globe-to-explore-the-notebooks-of-leonardo-da-vinci-in-words-movement-and-more

The museum was created in February 2023 by Eric Braverman, who at age 7 in 1972, saw a life-sized wax version of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper at a museum in Phoenix.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2023/05/07/the-last-supper-museum-in-douglas-arizona-has-hundreds-of-last-suppers-on-display.html

Then there was Hephaistos, the Leonardo da Vinci of his time.

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/22/12-greek-gods-mythology/