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Leonardo da Vinci remembered 500 years after his death as French-Italian feud over artwork continues Europe celebrates the Renaissance-era genius.
A 500-year-old sketch by Leonardo da Vinci has led to the remarkable discovery of hidden tunnels beneath Sforza Castle in ...
Leonardo da Vinci's "The Virgin of the Rocks" painting been under study since 2005. Improved X-ray technology has now highlighted the hidden angels.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a mysterious treasure of Renaissance art. A dentist believes he may have uncovered one ...
Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance. But, after a disagreement over money, he withheld the painting. Meanwhile, Leonardo ...
A third shape hidden in the infamous Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than ...
MILAN - Assertions that an eminent scholar had authenticated a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci tantalized art lovers with the prospect of a new masterpiece and inflated a backroom bidding war worth ...
Art can seem hard to understand. Explore the curious mind of Leonardo da Vinci and how he viewed art to learn how to view, and appreciate, art.
When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, he may have experimented with lead oxide in his base layer, resulting in trace amounts of a compound called plumbonacrite.
The mystery of a hidden code in a Leonardo da Vinci drawing has been solved after 500 years, and it turns out the answer was ...
Leonardo da Vinci excelled in the fields of art and science, but the Italian polymath was also a highly skilled expert in military structures and defensive systems, breaking new ground in the ...