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 like the Mona Lisa ... Its complexity lies in a probing effort to understand a deep mystery, which is how, in a woman prepared from all eternity ...

The so-called "Earlier Mona Lisa" is at the heart of a mystery that involves ... what it claimed to be a second painting of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Since the Mona Lisa is possibly ...

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 ...

A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder, has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. Police said that the thieves posed as visitors to the castle, in Dumfries and ...

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

Police are hunting for thieves who stole a Leonardo da Vinci painting from the estate of one of Scotland's richest landowners. Two men stole the painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder - thought to ...

The painting, protected by a thick layer of ... I have come to Windsor Castle to see the queen’s collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings. Outside the towering stone walls, tourists snap selfies ...

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 ...

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title ... on the course of Western art. After studying under the pre-eminent Andrea del ...

the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. "Mona Lisa" just got her own Lego set, and recently played a ...

the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. "Mona Lisa" just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." ...