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

Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?

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

Malevich: State Russian Museum; Scala/Art Resource, NY In the opening pages of Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, Stephen J. Campbell, the Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld professor of art ...

He's one of the rare Hollywood actors whose magazine heartthrob status did nothing to keep him away from awards season prestige. He's also one of the few Hollywood actors to really pick and choose ...

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

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 ...

And so rather than speed up his artwork he used an experimental approach using oil on a dry ... in his book Leonardo da Vinci that "just 20 years after completion, the painting began to peel ...

A three-year campaign has seen historic monuments, sporting events and priceless works of art targeted by activists ...

Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera “The Barber of Seville” was always rooted in the stock characters and silly scenarios of ...