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Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?
For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is one of the most iconic artworks in Western history. But from the moment the paint ...
His legacy as a painter ... da braccio (an ancestor of the violin). The subject of the portrait was probably the performer and instrument-maker Atalante Migliorotti, who accompanied Leonardo ...
Centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died far from his Tuscany homeland, pieces of his life — his sketches, his scribbles, his ...
Scientists have confirmed Leonardo da Vinci’s bloodline by tracing matching DNA in living male-line descendants.
Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...
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’s ‘Salvator Mundi,’ a masterpiece that has captivated the art world for centuries, took a remarkable journey from obscurity to the limelight in the mid-2000s. World Art Day 2025, ...
Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life ... his defense of St. John the Baptist, for example, a painting typically, and probably rightly, maligned. And like all works that are essentially social ...