The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

A team of researchers has used proteomics to establish the paint blends used in a painting supervised by the notoriously secretive Leonardo da Vinci, bearing huge significance for restoration and ...

Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci avoided the palette and mixed colors directly on the canvas, Italian researchers said after they reconstructed his work step by step "as if watching him while he ...

Six months after it was discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks" painting contained hidden images underneath, a new X-ray scan has revealed a winged angel and the baby Jesus in ...

The painting is unfinished, its origins shrouded in mystery—and yet it has been hailed as one of the great masterpieces in the history of art. And now, an entire exhibition is dedicated to it at the ...

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Researchers have uncovered new details of a hidden image buried within Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Virgin of the Rocks." Back in 2005, imaging revealed the painting — which shows the virgin Mary ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted between 1495 and 1498 in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is one of the most iconic and studied artworks in Western history. But from the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, smashing previous records for artworks sold ...

Robert Simon encountered a Leonardo da Vinci painting and got emotional. “I cried,” he told The Post of seeing the work hanging in Christie’s New York, displayed ahead of a 2017 auction. “Thank God ...