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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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

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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