No old master is more masterly than Leonardo da Vinci. His Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. And yet his oeuvre is small, no more than 15 works, some unfinished and all fragile. The rest is notebooks and legendry. He was supposed to be charming and eloquent, a wonderful singer and [...]

Projections of Paolo Veronese’s “Wedding at Cana,” part of “Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway,” shown during a press preview at the Park Avenue Armory. If you had tied on a blindfold, suspended disbelief and allowed yourself to be carried last week to a particular location just off Park Avenue near 66th Street, [...]

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 [...]