Among the multiple masterpieces given a scrupulous examination in “Leonardo da Vinci” is “Lady With an Ermine ... the duke of Milan, and a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, the teenage ...

Now, he's just made his first project ever that's not about an American subject: "Leonardo da Vinci." "It was just ... What emerges is a portrait of a genius, who's not just a painter, not just ...

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ...

Some say that the Mona Lisa may be a self-portrait, Leonardo da Vinci in drag. LONDON, Jan. 26, 2010 — -- Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous portrait in the world ...

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A new technique could help save a famous Leonardo da Vinci drawing that is vanishing with each passing day. The mysterious da Vinci portrait, widely considered to be a self-portrait of the artist ...

More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci ... to expose what it meant to da Vinci's oeuvre. Poured ...

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance.

Ginevra de' Benci. She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine banker, and her portrait—the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas—was probably commissioned about the time of her ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

This portrait highlights his early mastery of painting techniques like sfumato and spolvero. As a young artist, Leonardo da Vinci helped advance the art of single-point linear perspective ...