Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished ... as far as the eye can see, behind the book, behind the Virgin, we glimpse an incredible ...

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

The only such treatise to have survived from antiquity, the Ten Books is a classic ... uncannily like Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Everybody knows Leonardo’s drawing.

PARIS, France (CNN)-- Drawings on the back of a Leonardo da Vinci painting may have been sketched by the Italian Renaissance artist, but only more tests by museum experts will tell. The Department ...

New study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of his ...

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 ...

I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings. Outside the towering ... who collected his insights in a 256-page book, The Heart of Leonardo.

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 ...

Leonardo da Vinci was an artistic genius who rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges from drawing and painting to sculpting and even inventing. But perhaps the most well ...