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

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 ...

In Florence, Milan, Rome and finally France, he pours the sum of his scientific and artistic knowledge into a portrait ... Leonardo da Vinci designed many fantastical flying machines, self-driving ...

Did artist Verrocchio delegate two figures in his Beheading of St. John the Baptist to his prize pupil Leonardo da Vinci ... a 14th-century palazzo, or a self-portrait embedded in the spidery ...

Campbell argues that Leonardo’s works, such as The Vitruvian Man (around 1490), have been co-opted into a mythical “Da Vinci World ... beliefs and “sense of self”.