More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. "Mona Lisa" just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon on departing from past modes to paint the Renaissance master's portrait

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.