Experts claim the 500-year-old painting is a bona fide work of the artist Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of Isabella d'Este, is seen at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the painting on the right appears to be ...

If you were friends with Leonardo da Vinci, there’s a variety of favors you could have asked him for. You could have asked him to paint you a fine portrait, or to build you a flying machine, or to ...

Beloved documentarian Ken Burns, who has taken on weighty subjects from American history like the Vietnam War and the Civil War, will turn his attention to the great Renaissance artist Leonardo da ...

A third shape hidden in the infamous Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than previously known.

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

PHOENIX — An immersive art exhibit that puts the spotlight on renowned artist Leonardo da Vinci is set to debut in Scottsdale this week. Leonardo: The Universal Man will open Thursday at Lighthouse ...

Leonardo da Vinci was more than a great artist, famous for The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. He was a draughtsman, an engineer, a scientist, a sculptor and an architect. He had a voracious curiosity and ...

Two books show that creating a museum with a clear conscience isn’t always straightforward; another shows how we do love a ...

Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says. This hidden math in some abstract ...

“The right eye is dead,” said Sir Joseph Duveen, dolefully. “Dead,” he intoned, “very dead.” Surely Leonardo da Vinci had never painted a “dead” eye. Leonardo studied artillery, muscle fibres, ladies’ ...

Architects are being asked to submit proposals for a new entrance for the world’s most visited museum — and to create a new exhibition space for the Mona Lisa. By Aurelien Breeden The secret beauty in ...

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.