And the angel is pointing toward John the Baptist ... it's a cultural icon. Learn how Leonardo da Vinci created this iconic image and why it's so famous.

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 ...

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." ...

It has been said that the young angel on the left and the landscape ... paintings universally accepted to be the sole work of Leonardo da Vinci. Virgin of the Rocks (Louvre Version) (1483 ...

What was it about Leonardo da Vinci that made you want to step outside ... She's trying to reach her son, but an angel isn't there. And so you have, as he says, this larger purpose of drawing.

The faint sketches show the angel and Baby Jesus in slightly different ... After learning about the hidden sketches and handprints underneath Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Virgin of the Rocks ...

Leonardo da Vinci, a key historical figure of the Renaissance ... the infant John the Baptist and an angel, on a rocky landscape background. The painting presented in Paris was originally meant ...

When Leonardo returned in 1507, he eventually produced a picture, perhaps finished in part by assistants. Some brilliant passages of paint handling, as in the angel’s face and hair, are ...

Bambach spent 23 years researching her expansive four-volume book, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered ... Head of a Young Woman (“Study for the Angel in the Virgin of the Rocks”) reveal about ...

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 ...

Leonardo da Vinci is a 2-part, 4-hour docuseries directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. It’s Ken Burns’ first project that isn’t about an American subject, but given how da ...

“The way we absorb the world is all at once, and that’s the simultaneous, gluttonous impact that you get from his notebooks,” del Toro says of da Vinci. Simultaneity is essential to Leonardo ...