Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest Renaissance painters, was a perfectionist who spent many years going over the same ...

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

Sigmund Freud published a rather extensive study on Leonardo da Vinci, his childhood, and the symbols present in his art. The ...

Leonardo da Vinci wasn't just a master artist — he was centuries ahead in science too! Late in his life, he became fascinated by the human heart and made a stunning prediction about how the blood flow ...

Photo: Antonio Quattrone, 2009 There's nothing unusual about discoveries of lost works by Leonardo da Vinci ... art dealers for his own profit). In 1987, Frederick Hartt, an authority on ...

Experts believe there is a fresco painted by Leonardo Da Vinci hidden behind a later one by Giorgio Vasari after pigments were found matching his work.

In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

What is protest, if not the trembling murmur of a society’s conscience? Across centuries and continents, protest has not only ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its ...

Some of the trademark features of Renaissance art include the Chiaroscuro painting ... I’m sure we’ve all heard of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. But Giotto, Jan van Eyck, Sandro ...

While the anecdote concerning the prostitute Mary Magdalene is deeply moving, the compassion and forgiveness which Jesus shared with her was a part of his communion with everyone whom he helped, ...