Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?

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

And so this is perhaps the culmination of Leonardo’s trajectory as a scientist and artist. He’s taken this straightforward subject and turned it into something wonderful. Martin Kemp [Leonardo ...

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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 ...

Michelangelo disagreed with how Leonardo saw sculpture as fundamentally less noble than painting, writing that if “that man… had known as much about the other subjects on which he has written ...

Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by Italian artisans of the Leonardo3 Museum, a unique museum dedicated to the ...

A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not only by Leonardo da Vinci, but also an earlier version of the world famous portrait that ...

Leonardo's Nephew James Fenton Farrar, Straus and Giroux With journalistic panache, James Fenton cuts a wide and eclectic swath across the centuries, from Egyptian mummy paintings to the table ...