This week, senior reporter Eileen Kinsella speaks to documentarian Ken Burns about his first foray outside of American ...

Johns Hopkins art history professor Stephen Campbell complicates received narratives of the renaissance painter.

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A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

Filmmaker Ken Burns has produced over 40 films. His latest is a movie focused on the life and creative force of Leonardo da Vinci. It's his first film about an international topic.

Mona Lisa is recognized as the most expensive painting in the world. Nine artworks following behind, discover more on the ...

Leonardo da Vinci vs. Michelangelo (with assists from Machiavelli) in Gary Graves' compelling drama at Berkeley City Club.

A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder, has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. Police said that the thieves posed as visitors to the castle, in Dumfries and ...

Police are hunting for thieves who stole a Leonardo da Vinci painting from the estate of one of Scotland's richest landowners. Two men stole the painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder - thought to ...

There are still plenty of excellent exhibitions to catch before 2024 clocks off. Here's what we're excited for.

Ken Burns added: "He's an anatomist, and he's a botanist, and he's interested in flight, and he's a sculptor, and he's a painter, and he's an artist, and he's all of those. The reason why it's such a ...

Dance music legend Sasha has scored a roaming art exhibition celebrating the work of Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci, 'Da Vinci Genius’. The score also makes up as a 17-track album, produced in ...