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

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ... towards a single vanishing point in the distance. Later in his career, Leonardo would also use and develop new artistic techniques ...

Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

Museo Dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence. Photo: Antonio Quattrone, 2009 After a decade with Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci began his professional career in 1478. Bettmann / Corbis The fluid movement ...

Throughout his 46-year career, spent largely in Florence and ... the Met’s Bambach is publishing a four-volume opus, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered. Leonardo’s notebooks are starting to ...

As the race to Roland Garros heated up at the Italian Open, another story wound down: Roberta Vinci ended her nearly 20-year long career in Rome with a loss to Aleksandra Krunic. The 35-year ...

Throughout his career, especially during his time in ... It was in this environment that Leonardo da Vinci would eventually find patronage, having first approached Sforza with a carefully crafted ...

Stephen J. Campbell argues that Leonardo’s works, such as The Vitruvian Man (around 1490), have been co-opted into a mythical “Da Vinci World” played out in 20th-century works such as ...

Leonardo da Vinci is getting the Hollywood treatment ... more than 600 pages long—“traces the full arc of Leonardo’s career, including his making of the Mona Lisa and his scientific ...