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Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' Re-Created in Laundry Lint

A Michigan woman aired her dirty laundry -- and wound up with a Renaissance-style masterpiece. Using only laundry lint, home health aide Laura Bell has created a 14-foot by 4-foot re-creation of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper." It took the Roscommon resident between 700 and 800 hours to do enough laundry to obtain...

Scientists Unlock Dreamy Mystery of 'Mona Lisa'

(July 17) -- It's one of the things about the "Mona Lisa" that's long baffled art historians and viewers alike -- how Leonardo da Vinci used rudimentary pigments in the year 1503 to create such subtle shadows and light on the mysterious woman's face. And it's taken scientists more than 400 years to come up with technology...

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Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy

Most of us know the Leonardo's famous works by now.

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05/21/12 Killingworth Library Pizza Delivery Night Source: FOX - WTIC 61 - Hartford CT Submitted by Susan Cornell, Killingworth Library Association, on 2012-05-21.
05/20/12 FEATURE: Hong Kong artists crying foul over copyright... Source: Taipei Times A plan to toughen Hong Kong's copyright law has sparked protests from artists, who say it will stifle free speech, criminalize satire and threaten the city's growing status as a major arts hub.
05/19/12 Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy App Review Source: Trusted Reviews He invented things, painted like a demon - an exceedingly arty one - and took a keen interest in anatomy.
05/17/12 Aberdare: Aberdare pupils welcome German kindergarten... Source: Daily Post - Llandudno Junction - Conwy - UK ABERDARE Park Primary and St Margaret's RC Primary have welcomed two kindergarten students from Germany.

Background on da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( ; April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.

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