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

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 ...

Fortunately, anyone can appreciate art, especially with guidance from the 15th-century Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was an artist driven by “wanting to know.” He considered ...

The portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., holds a unique distinction as the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci publicly displayed in the ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to ...

One of the masterpieces attributed to Leonardo da Vinci has crossed a symbolic milestone by becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold. It is Salvator Mundi, a painting rediscovered in 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 ...

He was referring to the way da Vinci looked, dressed and appeared in paintings ... s life and that of most artists was thin at best. “While Leonardo left behind many thousands of pages of ...

He believed the best way to learn was through observation ... While most people associate Leonardo da Vinci with his paintings, his writings helped secure his place in history.

One of the first to argue that “The Battle of Anghiari” might still exist behind one of Vasari’s paintings was Carlo Pedretti, who made the case in his 1968 book “Leonardo da Vinci Inedito.” ...

Think Leonardo Da Vinci, who embodied the fusion of STEM and art (what some call STEAM, inserting an "A" into STEM). Da Vinci dissected human bodies to understand anatomy (science), used his ...