Once only indicated through a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1495, concealed passageways have been discovered ...

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 ...

While most people associate Leonardo da Vinci with his paintings, his writings helped secure his place in history. When they first started circulating in the mid-1500s, they were handwritten ...

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.” ...

After discovering the identity of his mother, a slave from the Caucasus, Carlo Vecce publishes the monumental 'Life of Leonardo' (Alfaguara), of 680 pages. "The goal is to recover his humanity beyond ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights the period’s works on paper—which, though frequently preparatory, stand as ...

And, there’s even more to be excited about because as we approach spring, now is the sweet spot for booking a summer holiday ...

For Adams, who was born in Baltimore in 1970, painting is a way of “bookmarking ... the pose suggests both an allusion to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” and a playful sexual ...