The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

She sits in complete stillness, her head tilted, eyes closed, her lips parted. Her hands, fingers intertwined, rest gently across her chest. Draped in soft, ear ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

Catherine O’Hara has never exactly gone anywhere—but in recent years, the world has rediscovered just how much of a ...

Kadagan/Shutterstock Consider Rabat a time capsule of the last millennium: Inside its historic walls you’ll find 500-year-old ...

World Art Day, observed on April 15 to commemorate Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, is an international celebration of artistic ...

Pope Francis on Monday signed a decree that recognized the 20th-century visionary’s “heroic virtues” and put him on the path ...

The largest contemporary exhibition ever mounted at the museum, Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur includes ceramics, tapestries, and works on paper, among others, displayed alongside some of the ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

Plus, discussions about the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2025 and works by two leading Irish modernists ...

Archeologists discovered, thanks to modern technology, that ancient sketches by Leonardo depict real tunnels under the Sforza ...