One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.

Researchers may have found the hidden tunnels beneath a castle in Milan that Leonardo da Vinci sketched in 1495.

Researchers discovered that our ability to recognize trees in art is linked to a mathematical principle called the branch ...

Written in code and peppered with baffling sketches, the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci are bursting with tantalising mysteries. But now, scientists have revealed the truth behind one of the great ...

The plot imagined a love story between Leonardo da Vinci and Lisa Gherardini, the woman widely believed to have been the model for the Mona Lisa. Not only did Minks get involved in developing the ...

Can it tell us more about Leonardo's images or imagination? No. But his origins, which had always been dark and mysterious, provide us with many keys to interpretation," explains Vecce, one of the ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

The Mona Lisa continues to captivate the world with its secrets. Every new study raises more questions than answers, keeping ...

Fortunately, anyone can appreciate art, especially with guidance from the 15th-century Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was an artist driven by “wanting to know.” He considered ...

researchers have discovered a series of secret tunnels—passageways once sketched by the Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci and traversed by a widower sick with grief.

Born on April 15, 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is one of humankind's greatest and most creative minds. He may be best known for influential paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper ...

The painter of the Mona Lisa, a pure genius of the Renaissance, sketched in his notebooks objects, machines, and systems that ...