Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...

Whenever I imagine Leonardo da Vinci, I invariably picture Patrick Godfrey, the white-whiskered British actor who played him in the 1998 Cinderella movie Ever After. What the Italian painter actually ...

Scientists have discovered male human DNA on a chalk drawing that may have been created by the famous artist and scientist.

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. More than 10,000 pages of Leonardo's personal notes survive, most ...

This article was updated Sunday, Oct. 16 at 1:37 p.m. ET Christie's auction house may have sold a priceless piece of art by Leonardo da Vinci for a little more than $21,000, according to researchers ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A portrait that sold at Christie’s auction house for just $21,000 is ...

Bernardino de’ Conti's side-profile depiction of a noblewoman last sold in 1993 for just $249,000. Bernardino de' Conti, Portrait of an Elegantly-Attired Noblewoman in Profile (circa 1500). Image ...

Is it, or isn’t it? Is the Renaissance painting sold at a 2005 New Orleans art auction truly a rediscovered portrait of Christ by the master himself, Leonardo da Vinci? Or is the “Salvator Mundi,” as ...

Researchers working on the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project believe the Renaissance Man left his DNA on the chalk drawing titled ...

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance. But, ...

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and starts very early in the 16th century. By now it has been seen by billions of ...