Today marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci's death.

The Renaissance polymath may have died on this day in 1519, but his memory has lived on through all sorts of representations over the past 500 years, writes Donal O’Keeffe.

Sleeping in a hammock, getting more rest, drawing and reading aloud might help you remember things for longer, writes Shane Cochrane.

Eve Kelliher takes a look at what’s happening in the worlds of art, interiors and gardening.

Michael Murphy enjoys a grand Russian adventure filled with opulence, culture and history

On the wall at his home in Tralee, etched in words big enough to see anytime his eyes wander from his work, Joe O’Connor has written a reminder:

In the large room upstairs in Galway football’s training centre in Loughgeorge, there used to be a plaque of Leonardo Da Vinci’s

The New York sale of a 1917 nude painting by Amadeo Modigliani is believed to have earned horse stud owner John Magnier close to €120m.

Sports law chatter this week has been dominated by the decision of the IAAF — the world governing body of athletics — to release its regulations on Athletes with Differences of Sexual Development, writes Jack Anderson.

The ‘empire of misogyny’ referred to by Mary McAleese will not be reformed by the Pope, who thinks the genders have different, divinely ordained roles, says TP O’Mahony

International business appeared almost impervious to the huge political tensions in Korea and the Gulf, as global shares soared and the rich got richer, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

IN the shorthand of our time, an art form all but perfected by our American cousins, country music is described as “three chords and the truth”.

BEAUTY, or at least your version of it, may be priceless but the New York sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, a long-lost painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII more than 500 years ago, for $450m suggests that even our highest ideals can be, and are being, commodified. In reality, it was ever thus.

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Artist Siobhain Steele shows her mettle with ceramics, says Aileen Lee.

JOHN Caplis once a had a former teacher come up to him. “A nun, and she said to me, ‘I was so surprised when I saw your poster,’ and I said, ‘Oh, right, you didn’t know I did comedy?’ and she said, ‘Oh no, I was shocked that you did teaching; didn’t you stay back?’”

Kya deLongchamps is moved by the centuries old skills used in the automaton. 

Kerry theatre maker Dick Walsh goes beyond the conventional, while retaining his comic world view, writes Pádraic Killeen

According to a report in Science News, Europe’s oldest living thing is a tree growing in the Pindus Mountains of Northern Greece.

Anna O’Donoghue samples sun, sea and castles and the odd mechanical elephant on her visit to Nantes, and discovers how the Loire Valley’s cultural capital comes into full bloom in the summer months.

They may yet transpire to be the cause of the intermittent financial bubbles that have shaken the global economy since 2008, as they were in the late 1920s, says Eddie Hobbs

One wouldn’t want to meet Antonio Conte in a dark alley on a dark night, writes John Leicester.

14 dead as Paris floods threaten works of art.

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Invest in sunglasses, see some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous sketches and try Voya’s new Seaweed Eye Mask.

DA VINCI DRAWINGS

I ran out of songs I enjoyed singing so I began writing my own.

 

A hidden portrait has been found underneath the Mona Lisa, a scientist has claimed.

Leonardo da Vinci overcame huge difficulties to become the ultimate Renaissance Man, writes Mark Evans.

As a graduate who has been unemployed for over two and a half years, I think It’s great to see developments like One Albert Quay being constructed in Cork.

There’s nothing like seeing a city through the eyes of a local. Sharon Ní Chonchúir experiences the real Krakow with a Polish friend.

A $1.54m (€869,000) masterpiece by an 17th century Italian artist was back on display in the Taiwan capital after a 12-year-old boy tripped, fell and punched a hole in the canvass, the exhibit organiser said.

Kya deLongchamps nags us to take a closer look at the place of horses in art yesterday and today.

Police have seized a portrait attributed to Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci from the vault of a Swiss bank during an investigation into tax crime and insurance fraud, an Italian court said.

WEIGHT management is a numbers game and Operation Transformation’s clinical psychologist Dr Eddie Murphy is no exception, writes Irene Feighan. 

Bored of advice on how to find your dream job? Suzanne Harrington casts an arched eyebrow over some of the world’s most rubbish cvs.

How The Library (Not The Prince) Saved Rapunzel by Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown (Frances Lincoln; €15.10 HB). 

WHEN Malcolm O’Kelly, 40, retired from international rugby in 2010, he had no clear career plans in place.