Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest Renaissance painters, was a perfectionist who spent many years going over the same ...

In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

Sigmund Freud published a rather extensive study on Leonardo da Vinci, his childhood, and the symbols present in his art. The ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel from Dan Brown’s bestselling 2003 mystery thriller (which also inspired the hit 2006 film starring Tom Hanks), the talky, excessively plotty and overly long ...

World Art Day is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci, honouring his contributions ...

What is protest, if not the trembling murmur of a society’s conscience? Across centuries and continents, protest has not only ...

Just like the gods who have the supernatural powers to make plenty out of scarcity, artists have the ability to create with ...

Elaine Sciolino, formerly the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has volunteered herself as a chatty, amiable tour ...

A VISUALLY impaired composer has interpreted the sounds of some of the world's most famous artworks and turned them into music. Bobby Goulder, who has Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy and cannot ...