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 ...

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 ...

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title. Though he is best known for his talents as a painter, he was also an engineer, architect ...

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

“Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452, is renowned as one of the greatest artists in history. His works like The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa continue to inspire countless artists ...

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 ...

More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous ... figure about which ...

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 ...