At the time, she had been 24 years old and the ... more than just a painting, it's a cultural icon. Learn how Leonardo da Vinci created this iconic image and why it's so famous.

Another famous painting representing a nocturnal scene, this time in Arles where he settled in 1888, is Café Terrace at Night which captivates us with its marked contrast between the warm light ...

The painting depicts a peasant woman holding tongs with smoldering embers in one hand and a cauldron of water in the other, a reference to an old Dutch ... work by the famous Flemish painter ...

Saunders, ardent US collectors who had flown in over Thanksgiving to see the painting, along with their adviser George Wachter, Sotheby’s chairman and co-worldwide head of Old Master paintings.