Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings and artworks left behind by the men who admired her ...

Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter ... It has been said that the young angel on the left and the landscape background was ...

Leonardo da Vinci spends 14 years working on the Mona ... Man as Leonardo: The earth has a living soul, and its flesh is the soil. Its bones are the strata and structures of the rocks which ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and ... The Virgin, infant Jesus, John the Baptist and an angel also called "The Madonna of the Rocks" or "Virgin of the Rocks." ...

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the ... but her hand can never reach her child's head because there's a figure, an angel, kneeling behind her son, and the angel is pointing ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to ...

More than half a millennium after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still one of the most ... She's trying to reach her son, but an angel isn't there. And so you have, as he says, this larger ...

The culmination of her research, a 2,200-page, four-volume book, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered ... Head of a Young Woman (“Study for the Angel in the Virgin of the Rocks”) reveal about ...

Along with creating some of the most beautiful and famous works of art in Western history, the “Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Sandro Botticelli also have another ...

Turns throughout PBS' “Leonardo da Vinci” remind us of how similar his era was to ours. Da Vinci’s Renaissance was a time of doubt and great uncertainty. His native city of Florence ...