Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

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

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci ... subject of Stephen Campbell’s “Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life.” As a professional art historian, a person deeply concerned with ...

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

Tom Hanks is in a league of his own. The actor had an unusual experience at one of the most famous museums in the world when ...

The Mona Lisa continues to captivate the world with its secrets. Every new study raises more questions than answers, keeping ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last ...

I couldn’t understand the dedication. Not in the way they must have. But I couldn’t ignore the sheer force that had made this place possible, and I couldn’t help but ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights the period’s works on paper—which, though frequently preparatory, stand as ...

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