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

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

What emerges is a portrait of a genius ... According to Sarah Burns, Leonardo da Vinci was a lateral thinker: "He made connections across all of these disciplines. Showing multiple things on ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Leonardo DNA Project, launched in 2016, aims to recover Leonardo’s Y chromosome and reconstruct his genetic profile. More ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...

“We are reflecting Leonardo back,” Sarah says ... ubiquity to expose what it meant to da Vinci’s oeuvre. Poured into the photorealistic portrait of noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo are ...

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 ...