One of the most important episodes in the Bible, Christ’s last meal with his twelve apostles has long been a popular subject ...

Leonardo entered Verrocchio's workshop in his teens, placed there, Radke speculates, because his father may have had ... Leonardo da Vinci began his professional career in 1478.

His father, Ser Piero da Vinci, held elevated status as a notary—a professional path that Leonardo would have been expected to follow had he not been born out of wedlock. The town of Vinci ...

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

There is the myth of an enigmatic, dark Leonardo, this idea of the superhuman genius... It is a very popular image in the United States, think of The Da Vinci ... Although his father, the notary ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ... Leonardo saw this as an advantage — he wouldn’t have to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a notary.

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of ... is by now so overrestored that Cesare Brandi ...