Leonardo DaVinci, La Belle Ferroniere Leonardo da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan is said by the gallery to be the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. The Trafalgar Square gallery is borrowing works including La Belle Ferroniere from the Louvre museum in Paris, the Madonna Litta (also known as [...]

The Virgin Mary is seen from the artwork “The Virgin on the Rocks” by Leonardo da Vinci (1491-1508), at the National Gallery in London July 14, 2010. An 18-month project to restore Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks” revealed the Renaissance artist likely painted the entire work himself rather than, as previously thought, with [...]

Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519). La Bella Principessa, ca. 1480-90. ‘Picture kept in a drawer ‘is £100m da Vinci’.” That’s how the article in The Sunday Times on July 27, 2008 breathlessly reported the incredible story of how the Paris-based American dealer Peter Silverman discovered a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. Visiting [...]

Follower of Leonardo da Vinci, probably before 1750, “Portrait of a Woman”, called “La Belle Ferronnière”. (55 x 43.5 cm) 21 5/8 x 17 1/8 inches. Est. $300/500,000. Sold for more than $1.5 million. Photo: Sotheby’s. A portrait once believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci sold for more than $1.5 million in [...]

Italian art experts say they have discovered a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, painted by an unknown artist. The painting shows him as a middle-aged man, with serious eyes and long, flowing hair. It was displayed at a news conference in Rome on Thursday and will be exhibited in the town of Vaglio from April [...]

Five men have appeared in court accused of demanding £4.25m for the safe return of a Leonardo da Vinci painting. The Madonna with the Yarnwinder was taken from Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, in August 2003. Its disappearance from the stately home became Britain’s biggest art theft; an international hunt for the painting [...]

For five centuries Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper has stood majestically still on the walls of a Milanese friary, the only disturbance the slow flaking of its priceless paint. Now Peter Greenaway, the iconoclastic British film-maker, has been granted permission to wheel in projectors and bring to life the hidden stories he sees in [...]