Claudio Sgarbi says he "was totally astonished" when he examined a manuscript including a drawing that seemed to prefigure Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Vitruvian Man (C. 1490), Giacomo ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

Leonardo left few personal reminiscences of his own, but we have glimmers of the man ... Leonardo’s drawing and credited him in the text: “We now know that da Vinci’s interpretation was ...

Fortunately, anyone can appreciate art, especially with guidance from the 15th-century Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was an artist driven by “wanting to know.” He considered ...

Centuries before the invention of the automobile, Leonardo da Vinci designed a device that seems to resemble a CVT. But did ...

It's been 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci's dealth, but his art still lives on. Sotheby's has announced one of da Vinci's drawings called "Leda and the Swan" will hang in its Manhattan galleries.

“The Vitruvian Man.” The “Mona Lisa” for goodness ... built on the castle’s tradition and hired Leonardo da Vinci to create art for the castle. According to Art Net, in his effort ...

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title ... on the course of Western art. After studying under the pre-eminent Andrea del ...