Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork ...

Last year, on November 8, the world lost one of the pop music icons of the late 1960s and early 1970s — Ricky Shayne, who ...

Researchers at MIT have proven Leonardo da Vinci correct yet again, this time involving his design for what would have been a ...

A third shape hidden in the infamous Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than previously known.

In 1894 Walter Horatio Pater died at Oxford, having contributed to the “PreRaphaelite” revival an ideal of Art for Art’s sake expressed in cloistral and cadenced prose. Young Englishmen by the score ...

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian are to go on display in Edinburgh for the first time. More than 80 drawings by 57 different artists will be on show in The King's Gallery at the ...

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A Queen Village art institution that was founded in 1931 could be forced to cut all paid employees, reduce programming or even close after the loss of federal grants have compounded years of funding ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ambition to expand his mind. However, as an illegitimate son, he was unable to receive a classical education. Fortunately, Leonardo saw this as ...

The painting of a buxom brunette called La Belle Ferronière was still displayed, last week, in a Manhattan courtroom. Was it the work of Leonardo da Vinci? To this question Georges Sortais, French ...

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, ANCHOR: Well up next, a deep dive into the life work of prominent Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci. Many will know him as the painter behind the famous Mona Lisa, but he was ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with father and daughter filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Burns about their new two-part documentary "Leonardo da Vinci," which airs on PBS beginning on Monday. More than half ...