Get ready, artists! The Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland, is launching an international art contest that will ...

Ken Burns has stepped out of his usual Americana-focused content to produce a new documentary covering the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It’s the first time the 15-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker ...

More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci ... to expose what it meant to da Vinci’s oeuvre. Poured into the photorealistic portrait of noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo ...

Turns throughout PBS' “Leonardo da Vinci” remind us of how similar his era was to ours. Da Vinci’s Renaissance was a time of doubt and great uncertainty. His native city of Florence ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

But she kept Leonardo’s portrait of her until her death in 1536, hanging it in her chambers. A live ermine may not seem like a natural accessory for a young lady, but it wasn’t quite as odd ...

For a long time, a red chalk drawing of an old man with flowing hair and a beard has been widely considered a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci ... the young woman in "Lady with an Ermine ...