leonardo da vinci

The torrid love affair you've never heard of.

‘Leonardo: The Musical: A Portrait of Love’ didn’t exactly soar on stage. But don’t blame the bird poop that helped get it there.

Paintings like ‘The Scream,’ ‘Starry Night,’ and ‘Mona Lisa’ have been subject to some interesting interpretations.

It’s no surprise that paintings like ‘The Scream,’ ‘The Starry Night,’ and ‘Mona Lisa’ have been subject to myriad interpretations over the years—some more bizarre than others.

Visitors to the Louvre looking at the 'Mona Lisa.'

Her tricky smile and timeless allure have inspired academic study and artistic emulation for more than five centuries. But the story of this perplexing portrait of 'Mona Lisa' is even richer than it looks.

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ (black border added).

Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is one of the most admired, most studied, and most reproduced paintings the world has ever known—and it has inspired some wild theories.

Despite all we do know about this Leonardo da Vinci painting, there are still a number of lingering questions.

Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting features a woman smiling. Now, some neuroscientists argue that the artist may have purposely added an insincere smirk that wasn't present on the model's face.

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In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work went missing. A tip from an admitted art thief seemed to implicate one of the world's best painters.

Zoom in on every detail of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches in Codex Forster I, which is now available online.

It would have been painted when Leonardo da Vinci was 18, but not everyone is convinced that the work—which depicts the Archangel Gabriel—is authentic.

Leonardo was a polymath, and the very definition of a Renaissance man. He also had beef with Michelangelo.

Leonardo da Vinci wore many hats—painter, mathematician, inventor, and paleontologist were just some of the titles that might describe him.

Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" has evolved over the past five centuries from a thoughtful sketch into the picture of health. But the history behind this sketch is as curious as its image is omnipresent.