An upcoming book by art historian Stephen J. Campbell, Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, digs into what we know—and what we never can know—about the Renaissance genius. In the book, Campbell ...

Art History Who Was Leonardo da Vinci’s Mom, Actually? A Provocative New Book Suggests She Was a Slave From the Caucasus of Central Asia. The book is based on a newly uncovered document that was ...

Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, a new book by Stephen Campbell, ... world-bestriding geniuses who create the museum art that gives us meaning in a world otherwise devoid of meaning.

A new book. Genìa Da Vinci. unveils a breakthrough finding by the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project: The Y chromosome shared by six male-line descendants of his family living in Italy today.

The book was The Da Vinci Code (DVC). And yet, two decades since DVC ’s publication , the then reaction to its appearance in 2003 seems even more surreal, more bizarre, than any fantastic plot line.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ambition to expand his mind. However, as an illegitimate son, he was unable to receive a classical education. Fortunately, Leonardo saw this ...

One of the first to argue that “The Battle of Anghiari” might still exist behind one of Vasari’s paintings was Carlo Pedretti, who made the case in his 1968 book “Leonardo da Vinci Inedito.” ...