Leonardo da Vinci’s hidden studio

The New York Times reports the discovery of what may have been the studio of Leonardo da Vinci.

FLORENCE, Italy, Jan. 14 - Researchers at a military geography institute here say they have discovered - hiding practically in plain sight in their building - what might have been a workshop for Leonardo da Vinci. …

Italian museum officials are hoping that the discovery of the frescoes and five small rooms where Leonardo might have lived and worked, in a building just off the Piazza of the Santissima Annunziata in central Florence, will help flesh out the life of the artist, inventor and scientist, who embodied the ideal of the Renaissance man.