Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest Renaissance painters, was a perfectionist who spent many years going over the same ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not only by Leonardo da Vinci, but also an earlier version of the world famous portrait that ...

New study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of his ...

It is a very popular image in the United States, think of The Da Vinci Code or ... in his voice and a Mona Lisa-like smile] The goal of my book is to recover Leonardo's humanity beyond the ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera “The Barber of Seville” was always rooted in the stock characters and silly scenarios of ...

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the ... Masterpieces like The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa remain some of the most celebrated ...