Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter ... to commemorate her betrothal to Luigi di Bernardo Niccolini. Minus Points for: Trimming ...

The Mona Lisa is much more than just a painting, it's a cultural icon. Learn how Leonardo da Vinci created this iconic image and why it's so famous.

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings and artworks left behind by the men who admired her ...

The painting was commissioned for the palace ... di Michelangelo”) and Leonardo’s horses (“li cavalli di Leonar. Vinci”). It is striking that the format of Leonardo’s work — as ...

Others believe that it is a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci himself. Even though there are theories about who the the person in the painting with the famous subtle smile is, Lisa Gherardini ...

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

More than half a millennium after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still one of the most well-known artists in the world. The rare artist who, when you name some of his most iconic paintings ...

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance. But, after a disagreement over money, he withheld the painting. Meanwhile ...

Google searches for da Vinci’s The Last Supper have skyrocketed in the past few days. With so much interest in the work of art, it’s worth reconsidering what exactly it depicts — and how ...

But the presence of plumbonacrite in the Mona Lisa is the first time the compound has been detected in an Italian Renaissance painting, suggesting that da Vinci could have pioneered this technique ...