Nov. 3, 2003 -- -- For most of the last 2,000 years, the Catholic Church called Mary Magdalene a prostitute who gave up her sinful life to follow Jesus. But some people believe that Mary Magdalene ...

Leonardo da Vinci emphasized the naturalness of the relationship of Jesus and Mary in his art, while also inviting viewers into a religious message. What Leonardo’s depiction of Virgin Mary and ...

Six months after it was discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks" painting contained hidden images underneath, a new X-ray scan has revealed a winged angel and the baby Jesus in ...

Prior to its Nov. 3 airing, the ABC news special “Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci” was described in The New York Times as “amusingly audacious and profoundly irritating.” In retrospect, the ...

Da Vinci depicts not the disciple John next to Jesus at the Last Supper, the book says, but Mary Magdalene, a symbol of the "divine feminine" principle that the church is determined to obliterate.

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, ... her daughter the Virgin Mary, and Jesus. In playing with the lamb, Jesus is announcing that he will be sacrificed, ...

Lest we forget, Mr. Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” (2003) turned on the idea that Leonardo’s works contain cryptic symbols and ...

LEONARDO da VINCI follows the artist’s evolution as a draughtsman and painter, ... "Virgin of the Rocks" – depicts the Virgin Mary and her son, ... infant Jesus, John the Baptist and ...

But playwright Mary Zimmerman was so intrigued by his writing that she took his words and crafted "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" in 1993. She now brings the play to the Old Globe Theatre .

Leonardo da Vinci’s mural of the Last Supper may be the most famous depiction of Jesus’ final meal with the disciples before his crucifixion. But it is only one of many paintings interpreting ...