The engineering for this gilded copper ball, completed during his apprenticeship with artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, made a lasting impact on Leonardo da Vinci. Checking for lightning ...

A few feet away, a pen-and-ink study of the Virgin and Child by Raphael – who arrived in Florence around 1504 ... (by the show’s third star, Leonardo da Vinci), which returns to the ...

In the early 16th century, three of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance circled each other in Florence, vying for influence and looking for inspiration. Now, an exhibition—titled ...

As a young envoy for the Republic of Florence, he crossed paths with Leonardo da Vinci in 1502 while monitoring the military campaigns of Cesare Borgia from the fortress town of Imola. While ...

Did artist Verrocchio delegate two figures in his Beheading of St. John the Baptist to his prize pupil Leonardo da Vinci? Museo Dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence. Photo: Antonio Quattrone ...

The remains exhumed in the Montelupo cemetery are those of Francesco Vinci, a key figure in the so-called “Sardinian trail” for the Monster of Florence crimes, which ended with the acquittal ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ... As an adolescent his father brought him to Florence, a city-state at the heart of the Renaissance, blossoming with art and architecture ...

A team at the Polytechnic University of Milan uncovered secret tunnels beneath Sforza Castle, potentially linked to Leonardo da Vinci's designs. Scientists have uncovered hidden structures ...

When word flashed around the globe that a car bomb had exploded outside Florence's Uffizi Gallery ... Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Leonardo da Vinci's Annunciation, the Uffizi is one ...

Directors have reached a 10-year, renewable exclusivity agreement for the Pueblo museum to be the United States' only permanent home of the Artisans of Florence's Leonardo da Vinci exhibits ...

Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan. And it’s in this capacity ...

Pueblo was granted final approval by the Colorado Economic Development Commission for North America’s first and only Leonardo da Vinci Museum.  The museum will feature interactive exhibits and ...