Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...

When it comes to Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, there’s more than meets the eye. The famed Mona Lisa artist’s works are teeming with an array of microbes that researchers say provide an invisible ...

Europe celebrates the Renaissance-era genius. Rome -- This year, myriad celebrations of Renaissance-era genius Leonardo da Vinci are opening across Europe to mark the 500th anniversary of his death.

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted between 1495 and 1498 in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is one of the most iconic and studied artworks in Western history. But from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is it, or isn’t it? Is the Renaissance painting sold at a 2005 New Orleans art auction truly a rediscovered portrait of Christ by the master himself, Leonardo da Vinci? Or is the “Salvator Mundi,” as ...