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

Traveling anywhere with kids, much less abroad, can be challenging. However, many places in Italy are welcoming to families ...

all of the drawings, paintings and statues he had personally collected throughout his life. The art housed in this 24-room gallery features works from masters, such as Leonardo da Vinci ("The ...

a number from the school of Leonardo da Vinci. Steps away from the Gothic-style Duomo is La Scala, the country’s most-famous opera house where Bellini, Rossini and Verdi premiered their works.

Her art seems to me to be in conversation with Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and countless Native artists & European cave painters from millenia ago — as well as Leonardo da ...

Centuries before the invention of the automobile, Leonardo da Vinci designed a device that seems to resemble a CVT. But did ...

Even if you're not well-versed in modern human history, the name Leonardo da Vinci likely still conjures some pretty specific imagery. While the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man ...

Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

Stephen J. Campbell argues that Leonardo’s works, such as The Vitruvian Man (around 1490), have been co-opted into a mythical “Da Vinci World” played out in 20th-century works such as ...

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title. Though he is best known for his talents as a painter, he was also an engineer, architect ...

The movie based on the controversial novel by Dan Brown claimed that there were symbols and other hidden meanings about Jesus Christ, the apostles and the Holy Grail encoded in Leonardo da Vinci ...