His brave attempts made a lasting impression on the art world, influencing generations of artists who followed him and defining the bar for depiction in the decades that followed. Leonardo died in ...

DeAgostini/Getty Images; handout Oct. 6, 2013— -- A long sought-after artwork attributed to Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered among a private collection of 400 paintings locked in a Swiss ...

My favorite of Leonardo's paintings is probably the Annunciation. The most remarkable thing about this picture is the landscape and what’s in the background. In the distance, as far as the eye ...

As we all know, art is subjective. So, we’re doing the only fair thing to do with Leonardo’s paintings: ranking them. To level out the playing field, we’re looking at completed, stand-alone ...

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 ...

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.” ...