Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky In the 19 th and early 20 th century, hundreds of paintings were believed to have been ...

Picture the amazing works of Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo – the Mona Lisa, David, the Sistine ...

While we might recognize most of these masterpieces and their artists, we probably don’t know much about the stories behind ...

The painting is unfinished, its origins shrouded in mystery—and yet it has been hailed as one of the great masterpieces in the history of art. And now, an entire exhibition is dedicated to it at the ...

Before Leonardo da Vinci, most art fell flat. Pre-Renaissance painters hadn’t really figured out how to depict the world in three dimensions, so landscapes and portraits appeared rather cartoonish.

When it comes to Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, there’s more than meets the eye. The famed Mona Lisa artist’s works are teeming with an array of microbes that researchers say provide an invisible ...

As the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance great Leonardo da Vinci approaches, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is reaching deep into its archive to exhibit four rarely shown ...

The over 7,000 square foot exhibition is organized around da Vinci's study of nature's four elements: earth with cranes and a ...

The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci is best known for those famous paintings, but some are unaware he was also an engineer, scientist, inventor, and more — and the Leonardo da Vinci ...

The great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered from an unusual visual tic: an intermittent outward turn of the eye, clinically known as strabismus. According to ...

ROME — So versatile were Leonardo da Vinci’s talents in art and science and so boundless his visionary imagination, he is known to the world as the universal genius. But not to Italy’s ...

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