Renaissance Facts

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.

Michelangelo was sentenced to death in 1530. He hid for two months in a secret coal vault, drawing on the walls. Those drawings - attributed to him but still debated - lay plastered over for 445 years. In 1975, a director found them under a trapdoor. They are still on the walls.