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

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works ... painting in the history of Western art. Mary of course was the most common subject in Medieval and Renaissance art. Here, Mary is Leonardo ...

Claudio Sgarbi says he "was totally astonished" when he examined a manuscript including a drawing that seemed to prefigure Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Vitruvian Man (C. 1490), Giacomo ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings ... features of an elderly man. “What you get most out of Leonardo’s drawings in some of his ...

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely ... impact on the High Renaissance and, by extension, on the course of Western art. After studying under ...