Two chalk and pastel studies of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that once belonged to a 19th-century Dutch king will be up for auction next month. The portraits of the heads of St ...

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

ROME — Leonardo da Vinci may be one of the most studied humans in history. And yet one crucial detail about the Renaissance master has remained shrouded in mystery: Who was his mother?

Getty Images In their desire to relate the human ... paid 30 million dollars for it at auction. Today, Leonardo da Vinci is principally remembered as an artist, but his journals reveal his deep ...

Fetus in Utero by Leonardo da Vinci (Courtesy of PBS/CreditRoyal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024/Bridgeman Images)Da Vinci's way of processing the world ensured he'd ...

Andrii Petrenko, head of the Cyril's Church Museum of the National Reserve Sophia of Kyiv, says there is a place in Kyiv ...

Study for "The Battle of Anghiari" by Leonardo da Vinci. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) The experts may have achieved their decisive blow, but they were almost ...

Encore Fridays, Jan. 17 and 24, 2025 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Jan. 19 and 26 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired ...

Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan. And it’s in this capacity ...

The two-part, four-hour PBS documentary is filmmaker Ken Burns’ first project not exploring an American subject. It also features a musical score by Caroline Shaw, another new direction for ...

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and starts very early in the 16th century. By now it has been seen by ...