If writing a biography is difficult, writing a biography of someone ... The locus classicus for such hagiography is the treatment of Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in Giorgio Vasari’s ...

A Renaissance mind built machines no one could understand—until centuries later. What was he really trying to escape?

Leonardo da Vinci's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 5 USD to 450,312,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2001 the record ...

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's Juneteenth, birthdays for Gallery 263 and “Rocky Horror ...