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 ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona ... Francesca Borgo This was a time when portraits of women were almost exclusively in profile. Portraits in which the subject does ...

These figures include serious and established Leonardo experts, including art historian Carmen Bambach, author of a magisterial four-volume “Leonardo da Vinci ... of the two women in the Louvre ...

Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific ... of–likely– non-royal women. Bonus Points for: Sauciness. Art Historian Paul Barolksy said ...

He also imbued the portraits of young women, including the “Mona ... These are tantamount to modern lab books. (Leonardo da Vinci transformed mapping from art to science.) Sheet 1A of Leonardo ...

When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece ... The painting is in remarkably good condition given its age, but art conservationists and da Vinci scholars alike are eager to learn as ...