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

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

Just like the gods who have the supernatural powers to make plenty out of scarcity, artists have the ability to create with ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

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

he took the painting off the wall and lugged it into a nearby stairwell, where he extracted the piece from its heavy frame. The artwork was Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Join Walkley award ...

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

A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not only by Leonardo da Vinci, but also an earlier version of the world famous portrait that ...

Elaine Sciolino, formerly the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has volunteered herself as a chatty, amiable tour ...