To mark the 500th anniversary of the Leonardo da Vinci’s death, a collection of his drawings are going on a UK tour next year. But if you think that “Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing,” as the show ...

The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci is best known for those famous paintings, but some are unaware he was also an engineer, scientist, inventor, and more — and the Leonardo da Vinci ...

Royal Collection Trust staff pose beside preparatory sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper at A Life in Drawing, the largest exhibition of Leonardo's work in more than 65 years, at The Queen ...

Look closely at the woman’s eyes, and the drawing will remind you of the Mona Lisa. Small in size and unknown by a wide audience, the Leonardo da Vinci drawing is considered by art experts as a nearly ...

The drawing known as “Head of a Bear” was sketched on a square piece of pale, pink-beige paper measuring just less than 3 inches. The piece is believed to have been drawn around 1480. It was estimated ...

The exhibition will feature more than 60 detailed full-scale invention recreations and over 20 fine art studies.

For everyone who ever sat though a boring meeting doodling on a legal pad — and who hasn’t? — Leonardo da Vinci is the ultimate inspiration, if not always recognized as such. He was the quintessential ...

So far as we know, Leonardo da Vinci completed fewer than 20 paintings in his lifetime. But the leading Italian Renaissance artist did leave behind thousands of drawings, which he used to prepare for ...

Microbiomes are all the scientific rage, even in art conservation, where studying the microbial species that congregate on works of art may lead to new ways to slow down the deterioration of priceless ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci's thumbprint and preparatory sketches for some of his most famous works are going on display to the public at Buckingham Palace, in what is being billed as the ...