Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

The Mona Lisa continues to captivate the world with its secrets. Every new study raises more questions than answers, keeping ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

Researchers may have found the hidden tunnels beneath a castle in Milan that Leonardo da Vinci sketched in 1495.

One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.

Truly, the tale of a lost (!) da Vinci (!!) falls somewhere between “The Goldfinch” and Dan Brown. I mean, for God’s sake, it involves a Latin clue written into another painting; I was done with Doyle ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last ...

In 1460, Francesco Sforza, the duke of Milan, decided he required a royal residence. He seized upon the ruins of a medieval fortress in northern Italy and over the next few years, oversaw its ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech to announce a multi-year overhaul, long-term investments to modernize the Louvre museum, next to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa ...