The researchers are part of a project dubbed Odotheka, which is hoping to build a library of scents based on museum objects. To do so, it’s working in partnership with universities and institutions ...

Although Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” is the artist’s most famous painting, it may not be his most intriguing, accomplished or beautiful. It may not even be his best portrait. A strong contender in that ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The small oil painting on wood is believed to depict Cecilia Gallerani, the teenage mistress of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan Painting entitled 'Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani' (The Lady with an ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...

When it comes to Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, there’s more than meets the eye. The famed Mona Lisa artist’s works are teeming with an array of microbes that researchers say provide an invisible ...

Henry Ford Museum is opening "DaVinci The Exhibition", showcasing 65 full-scale reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's ...

If you had to name the most famous painting in the world, there’s a better-than-average chance you’d name the “Mona Lisa” — the jewel of the Musée du Louvre, and one of the iconic artworks that ...

Scientists have discovered a new secret about how Leonardo da Vinci painted his enigmatic masterpiece, “The Mona Lisa.” The innovative Renaissance painter invented a unique chemical formula for the ...