Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, a name synonymous with genius, stands as a towering figure of the High Renaissance. Born in ...

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. But, ...

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian are to go on display in Scotland for the first time. More than 80 ...

Researchers found clues of a hidden painting that might be a Da Vinci. March 12, 2012— -- It sounds like the stuff of riveting mystery novels: A team of researchers has spent nearly 40 years ...

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

Encore Fridays, Jan. 17 and 24, 2025 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Jan. 19 and 26 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired ...

The Battle of Anghiari, a work of art depicting four soldiers fighting atop warhorses during a key battle of Italy's 15th Century Wars in Lombardy, is often considered "The Lost Leonardo". Peter Paul ...

(CNN) — “Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study. Trace quantities of ...