Freud disliked biographies, but he made an exception for Leonardo in a 1910 essay that explored the polymath's childhood and ...

Inside, past an arched gateway bedecked by gargoyles, Leonardo ushers me back to the Renaissance. I can almost hear whispers of the artist as I gaze at a leather album bound in the late 1500s in ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci’s death ... As he once famously said, “Art is never finished, only abandoned,” da Vinci would’ve been a prolific ...

One of Leonardo’s designs for a burning device was modeled after a bird known as an oiselet de cyphre. The exhibition features a modern reconstruction, displayed alongside the artist’s writings.

It was light fun until he became convinced that he had made a major discovery in 2022: a Leonardo da Vinci painting wrongly attributed to a different painter at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi,’ a masterpiece that has captivated the art world for centuries, took a remarkable journey from obscurity to the limelight in the mid-2000s. From this year’s Turner ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by Italian artisans of the Leonardo3 Museum, a unique museum dedicated to the ...

Leonardo DiCaprio, an Academy Award®-winning actor, has been an outspoken advocate for environmental issues throughout much of his career. In 1998, at the age of 24, Mr. DiCaprio established his ...

Poldark actor Aidan Turner has said he is "glad" that a new historical drama about Leonardo da Vinci reflects the artist's sexuality. The Amazon Prime TV series stars Turner as the Renaissance ...

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...