For a painting worth nearly half a billion dollars, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi is far from perfect. The 500-year-old portrait of Jesus Christ has a shady past that includes ownership by ...

While studying a Leonardo da Vinci painting in 2005, researchers found a hidden painting underneath. Improved technology has now allowed the angelic images to be seen clearly. Researchers are ...

Call it the priciest piece of art — ever. A once-lost portrait of Christ by the iconic Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci sold Wednesday at auction for $450 million, roughly triple its ...

The likely Leonardo da Vinci painting "Salvator Mundi" looks straightforward at first glance: a depiction of Jesus Christ in Renaissance-era clothing, raising one hand in blessing and holding a ...

Researchers found clues of a hidden painting that might be a Da Vinci. March 12, 2012— -- It sounds like the stuff of riveting mystery novels: A team of researchers has spent nearly 40 years ...

There are fewer than 20 Leonardo da Vinci paintings in the world. — -- A rare painting by Leonardo da Vinci auctioned in New York on Wednesday night fetched over $450 million, making it the ...

The Mona Lisa is much more than just a painting, it's a cultural icon. Learn how Leonardo da Vinci created this iconic image and why it's so famous.

He says it’s no accident. Leonardo da Vinci engineered it that way. He carefully studied how the muscles of the face work to be able to translate emotions into paint. Da Vinci also studied engineering ...

according to National Gallery of Art curator David Alan Brown, he couldn’t do so without selling one of the family’s many artistic treasures: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Ginevra de’ Benci,” a ...

But a new exhibition at the Getty Center, “Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention,” suggests there is at least one area left to explore: the works he didn’t do.