5 things you might not know about Leonardo da Vinci

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sean Fleming, Senior Writer, Formative Content When Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi was auctioned at Christie’s in New York, it fetched the highest ever price for a painting – $450.3 million. Now, 500 years after his death, the largest […]

How Leonardo da Vinci’s outsider status made him a Renaissance man

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Walter Isaacson, Professor of History, Tulane University Leonardo da Vinci had the good luck to be born out of wedlock. Otherwise, he would have been expected to become a notary, like the firstborn legitimate sons in his family stretching […]

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