CNN’s guide to Florence’s world-renowned trove of art and architecture, the legacy of Renaissance masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Botticelli.

An in-depth study of Leonardo da Vinci's earliest-known drawing has proved that the great Renaissance artist was ambidextrous, Italy's Uffizi Gallery said on Monday. The scientific and ...

Since Leonardo da Vinci’s death 500 years ago, his artwork and sketches have been studied around the world. His painting of the Mona Lisa, which sits in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is ...

Artistic journey: Follow in Leonardo da Vinci's footsteps in Florence, Italy.Da Vinci grew up in Tuscany and headed to the beautiful city of Florence to kickstart his career.

Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452 in the village of Anchiano near Florence, Italy, was a study in contrasts. Far from weakening him, these contrasts were the hallmark of his greatness.

Smithsonian Journeys has created “The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci: Celebrating 500 Years,” an eight-day tour through Florence, Vinci and Milan led by Ross King, an author and Renaissance ...

Nowhere is that pride more heartfelt than in Vinci, a small Tuscan town 17 miles west of Florence, where Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, the son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prosperous notary ...

FLORENCE, Italy — The unfinished Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece "Adoration of the Magi" has emerged from a six-year restoration cleaner and brighter. The large, nearly square oil painting ...

Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance painting 02:23 "It's the most famous painting in the world," he said. "And when you stand before it at the Louvre, you all of a sudden realize why.

The true, queer history of Florence is largely forgotten. ... One of them was Leonardo da Vinci, who was accused in 1476 of engaging the services of a male sex worker at the age of 26.

Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up plans for mechanisms that would allow humans ... The wooden models were built by craftsmen in Florence, Italy, who faithfully adhered to da Vinci's vividly detailed ...