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 ...

A team of researchers has used proteomics to establish the paint blends used in a painting supervised by the notoriously secretive Leonardo da Vinci, bearing huge significance for restoration and ...

Researchers at the National Gallery of London have used cutting-edge techniques to reveal a hidden drawing beneath Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks. It shows that the great artist and his ...

Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ...

“Grotesque Head of an Old Woman,” recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression. Already a member? Sign in here. We ...

Opening today, on what would have been Leonardo da Vinci’s 563rd birthday, the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The show will feature a ...

Second only to the Mona Lisa as Leonardo da Vinci's most stupendous achievement, The Last Supper (1495–98) is almost as famous for its degraded state as it is for its enduring power. With details ...

London -- A drawing of a bearded, pensive-looking man owned by Queen Elizabeth II is a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, a royal art adviser said Thursday on the 500th anniversary of his death. Martin ...

Royal Collection Trust staff pose beside preparatory sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper at A Life in Drawing, the largest exhibition of Leonardo's work in more than 65 years, at The Queen ...