How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and ...

Leonardo Da Vinci is known for the creation of iconic images like the Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man, but his designs ...

Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.

It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...

I remember when, as a child, I fought my way to the front of a queue of sweaty tourists in the Louvre, only to be pulled ...

At the turn of the 16th century, Florence was the scene for "what may have been the ultimate clash of the titans of Western ...

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PARIS — The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, has requested urgent help from the French government to restore and renovate its ageing exhibition ...

Leonardo Da Vinci High School’s principal, a teacher, a parent leader and several students conveyed their school’s plight to the Buffalo Common Council’s finance committee Tuesday at City Hall.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that exceeds the exhibition’s comparatively small three-room space. Yet it is a ...