scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that Leonardo da Vinci used to paint his groundbreaking portrait of the woman with the exquisitely enigmatic smile. The research, published ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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's Lady With an Ermine (1489) depicts Cecilia Gallerani, a mistress of the Duke of Milan. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Fragrances were also believed to ward off disease.