Last year in this column I wrote about the one-of-a-kind Da Vinci-The Genius put on by Imagine Exhibitions Gallery at The Venetian casino resort in Las Vegas.
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Like Leonardo da Vinci -- whose famous Mona Lisa is housed in the Louvre -- VINCI also has an installation in the reputed Paris art gallery.
The successful transmission is a significant achievement -- which Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci would have surely appreciated -- because it marks "the first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances, " said principal investigator David Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In a string of doomed attempts to maintain their standard of living, the islanders have tried everything from money-laundering to bankrolling an appalling London musical about Leonardo da Vinci's love-life.
But even as it recaptures the past, the show, like da Vinci, is forward-looking.
For many, the group first gained wide attention when it was portrayed in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code.
Recently a detailed study conducted by the researchers at Columbia University has indicated that the cost-benefit ratio of using da Vinci surgical system to perform hysterectomies is not favorable at all.
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The recorder, run by Texas Instruments' new Da Vinci DM368 Video Processor, supports a real-time video pipeline that enhances image quality and produces crystal clear 1080p H.264 video.
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"The phrase 'Renaissance Man' was derived from him, " says David S. Goyer, who has spent a lot of time studying and pondering him, and has created "Da Vinci's Demons, " a sci-fi thriller set in the 1400s.
London (CNN) -- A newly discovered painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci has sent shock waves through the art world, prompting speculation that more of his paintings could be as yet undiscovered.
In movies, Amy Pascal , chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, is trying to repair the studio's sagging reputation, with box-office successes like the Spiderman series and The Da Vinci Code.
Cannes also shows films out of competition, often an attempt to raise visibility -- though, as in the case of "The Da Vinci Code" in 2006, the high profile can backfire.
Recapturing 15th-century Florence, not to mention the highfalutin exploits of da Vinci, demands impressive visual effects, and Goyer set the bar high: "My goal was to be at least on par with the production values of 'Game of Thrones, '" he says.
Pastor RON MCCRARY (Christ Church Anglican, Kansas City): How many--how many of you have actually read the book, itself, The Da Vinci Code?
The discover section of the site provides an insight into the science behind the study of Leonardo's work, including explanations and images of infra-red, ultra-violet and my favourite, the "computed axial tomography" of some of da Vinci's work.
That sensibility led Topkis to her first winner, a 1995 British detective story called Death in the Garden, by Elizabeth Ironside. (In January Garden briefly beat out The Da Vinci Code as the top mystery seller on Amazon.com.) To publish this out-of-print title, Topkis had to track down the book's rights.
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