In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some ...

From the Pilgrims' Madonna at the Basilica of St. Augustine to the Martyrdom of St. Ursula that closes the "Caravaggio 2025" ...

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ...

Eggheads believe Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA could crack the code of what makes a genius. The famous artist was a polymath - ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

This confirms the genetic continuity of the male line of the da Vinci family, at least since the 15th generation.

Have you ever pictured yourself as "Mona Lisa," that mysterious lady that Leonardo da Vinci painted so long ago? Or do you have more in common with the stalwart farmers of "American Gothic" that Grant ...

Explore Leonardo’s distinct approach with your students with Visual Art as Narrative: Analyzing Leonardo da Vinci’s Portraits on PBS ... He was entirely self-taught, sometimes distracted ...

Turns throughout PBS' “Leonardo da Vinci” remind us of how similar his era was to ours. Da Vinci’s Renaissance was a time of doubt and great uncertainty. His native city of Florence, Italy ...

What I love most about this film is how little we’re told about da Vinci’s personal life. Self-portrait, (blood on white paper). Circa 1515. Courtesy of MiC-Musei Reali, Biblioteca Real.