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While studying a Leonardo da Vinci painting in 2005, researchers found a hidden painting underneath. Improved technology has now allowed the angelic images to be seen clearly. Researchers are ...
For a painting worth nearly half a billion dollars, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi is far from perfect. The 500-year-old portrait of Jesus Christ has a shady past that includes ownership by ...
Call it the priciest piece of art — ever. A once-lost portrait of Christ by the iconic Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci sold Wednesday at auction for $450 million, roughly triple its ...
The Mona Lisa is much more than just a painting, it's a cultural icon. Learn how Leonardo da Vinci created this iconic image and why it's so famous.
He says it’s no accident. Leonardo da Vinci engineered it that way. He carefully studied how the muscles of the face work to be able to translate emotions into paint. Da Vinci also studied engineering ...
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the world’s most celebrated painters, likely did not have a rare eye condition that was thought to have played a role in his art, new research has found. This disputes ...
There are fewer than 20 Leonardo da Vinci paintings in the world. — -- A rare painting by Leonardo da Vinci auctioned in New York on Wednesday night fetched over $450 million, making it the ...
Not DiCaprio, but the fellow from the Italian town of Vinci, that Renaissance genius who more than warrants the four hours of "Leonardo da Vinci ... so varied – from painting to engineering ...
according to National Gallery of Art curator David Alan Brown, he couldn’t do so without selling one of the family’s many artistic treasures: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Ginevra de’ Benci,” a ...
But a new exhibition at the Getty Center, “Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention,” suggests there is at least one area left to explore: the works he didn’t do.
Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi," considered by many to ... It is the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. "I can hardly convey how exciting it is for those of us directly involved ...