Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation was likely one of his earlier paintings, in which the angel Gabriel swoops down with feathered wings to greet the Virgin Mary with a small bouquet of lilies.

According to the Louis Grell Foundation, the artist developed a gift for drawing and design at an early age while going to ...

The newly uncovered painting ... of Mary. Heun explained that in the Middle Ages, there was the belief that a unicorn could only be captured by a pure virgin. "It's actually about the Annunciation ...