The Mona Lisa is much 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.

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 da Vinci, a key historical figure of the Renaissance, left a small but precious collection of paintings. These works, scattered around the world's greatest museums, continue to delight ...

Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter. He created thousands of drawings in his notebooks in which he wrote obsessively, and while ...

Griffin. The 26-inch-tall Leonardo painting is unique in that it eschews da Vinci's typical poses — which often featured subjects in three-quarter view with their heads swiveled toward the ...

More than half a millennium after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still one of the most well-known artists in the world. The rare artist who, when you name some of his most iconic paintings ...

“Leonardo was himself a work of art even before creating art,” Bramly says. He was referring to the way da Vinci looked, dressed and appeared in paintings, whether created by others or self ...

Leonardo da Vinci is a 2-part, 4-hour docuseries directed ... through his days in Florence and his time in Milan, through his painting of The Last Supper and just short of when he painted his ...

Encore Fridays, Jan. 17 and 24, 2025 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Jan. 19 and 26 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired ...

Paintings appear with geometric lines superimposed ... Somewhat inevitably, Leonardo da Vinci is least interesting and least convincing when it tries to tackle an understanding of da Vinci as ...