Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance. But, ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired future generations, and it finds in his soaring imagination and profound intellect the foundation for a conversation we are still ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted between 1495 and 1498 in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is one of the most iconic and studied artworks in Western history. But from the ...

Researchers found clues of a hidden painting that might be a Da Vinci. March 12, 2012— -- It sounds like the stuff of riveting mystery novels: A team of researchers has spent nearly 40 years ...

Art can seem unapproachable at times. That’s because no two people view a work of art in the same way — and there’s no rulebook that says what is or isn't considered art. Fortunately, anyone can ...

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 ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. “You understand easily when you analyze his pigments and his compositions that he was truly an experimenter,” says Gilles Wallez, an inorganic chemist at ...

In the heart of downtown Miami, a different kind of cultural event took place – it was a marriage of art and science, which welcomed visitors to explore a unique world from another century. On loan ...

We wonder what Leonardo would think about all this money? (gif by the author for Hyperallergic) Long believed to have been destroyed, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c.1500) was rediscovered in ...