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 ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished ... Though he borrowed freely in technique from Verrocchio, Leonardo’s Annunciation ...

There's a hidden drawing underneath the "Mona Lisa" — and it shows that this masterpiece almost looked very different.

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and ...

Here, Gary Settles of Penn State University uses schlieren, an imaging technique ... Coffey included Leonardo’s drawing and credited him in the text: “We now know that da Vinci’s interpretat ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...

In a landmark research, Indian and Irish scientists have revalidated the 500-year-old findings of Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci that the ... and dissection technique will never be the same ...

A drawing of a bear's head by Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record £8.8m ($ ... described silverpoint as "a very difficult technique, because it doesn't really admit any mistake".

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...

Peering into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that Leonardo da Vinci used to paint his groundbreaking ...