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 ... art. Western art has a relationship with landscape that has evolved. Initially we didn't include it. Then we did, because you have to put something in the background.

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 ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps ... In fact, a new study from geologist and art historian Ann Pizzorusso argues that the background of the Mona Lisa does not depict Arezzo at all ...

Did artist Verrocchio delegate two figures in his Beheading of St. John the Baptist to his prize pupil Leonardo da Vinci ... separately from the frieze background, allowing for a master-student ...

Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title ... on the course of Western art. After studying under the pre-eminent Andrea del ...

Malevich: State Russian Museum; Scala/Art Resource, NY In the opening pages of Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, Stephen J. Campbell, the Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld professor of art ...

For today’s YP Nails It, our Junior Reporters Manager Rhea Mogul attempted to recreate Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci’s world ... and the trees in the background. Towards the end, my ...