For a time there was uncertainty as to whether the Mona Lisa in the Louvre was the actual painting by Leonardo da Vinci. In ...

A neighborhood in Lakeland is offering a $1,000 reward for the return of their black swans. Deputies are looking for the two ...

Records related to the former Johnson County sheriff's three-year investigation into alleged election fraud show he wanted to ...

In the 15th century, artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Donato Bramante were invited to paint ... his areas of interest include modern history and true crime.

One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.

Researchers may have found the hidden tunnels beneath a castle in Milan that Leonardo da Vinci sketched in 1495.

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 ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

A mural commissioned in 1503 for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence has been the subject of controversy and debate for more than ...

In 1460, Francesco Sforza, the duke of Milan, decided he required a royal residence. He seized upon the ruins of a medieval fortress in northern Italy and over the next few years, oversaw its ...

Truly, the tale of a lost (!) da Vinci (!!) falls somewhere between “The Goldfinch” and Dan Brown. I mean, for God’s sake, it involves a Latin clue written into another painting; I was done with Doyle ...