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A decade after the passing of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, a controversial decision by his sons has sparked debate within literary circles, as reported by BBC. Despite their father's wish to destroy a novel he penned during his battle with dementia, his sons have opted to publish the book, titled "Until August".  

Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the "Mona Lisa" and a symbol of the Renaissance, was only half-Italian, his mother a slave from the Caucasus, new research revealed on March 14.

Da Vinci's mother had long been thought a Tuscan peasant, but University of Naples professor Carlo Vecce, a specialist in the Old Master, believes the truth is more complicated.

An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling.

Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project's curator Stefan Litte told AFP.

Leonardo da Vinci is the star in a blockbuster retrospective that opened Oct. 24 at the Louvre museum in Paris to mark 500 years since the death of the Renaissance master.

After months of negotiations, the largest exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, commemorating the 500th anniversary of his death, was opened in the Louvre.

The exhibition will feature drawings, sketches, paintings and other 160 works by the Italian Renaissance artist. Currently, over 220,000 tickets have been sold.

Butterflies flutter around centuries-old olive groves in Vinci, the Tuscan village where Leonardo da Vinci was born and honed his inventor skills as a child by studying the local flora and fauna.

An in-depth study of Leonardo da Vinci's earliest-known drawing has proved that the great Renaissance artist was ambidextrous, Italy's Uffizi Gallery said on April 8.

A man rides a bicycle past a mural by the artist Ino inspired by Leonardo da Vinci on the wall of the old OSY bus depot on Pireos Street in downtown Athens, Monday.

On the 500th anniversary since the death of Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, geometrist, engineer, anatomist, musicians and paleontologist Leonardo da Vinci, the old bus depot at the bottom of the pedestrianized part of Ermou Street is hosting an impressive exhibition showcasing different aspects of his multifaceted career.

On the 500th anniversary since the death of Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, geometrist, engineer, anatomist, musicians and paleontologist Leonardo da Vinci, the old bus depot at the bottom of the pedestrianized part of Ermou Street is hosting an impressive exhibition showcasing different aspects of his multifaceted career.