Da Vinci was a musician, too

On the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, art historian Martin Kemp has collaborated with early music singers I Fagiolini to create a tour and album centred on da Vinci's musicianship, Guardian reports. Da Vinci played a kind of fat violin called the lira da braccio, for which there were not even written scores, and it was "the Renaissance version of playing the blues” - a musician would improvise on its deep acoustics while singing melancholy verses. The album, 'Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible' is out now, see the album trailer here.