Ever since he got a movie camera for his 17th birthday, Ken Burns has been making documentaries. Over the years, he's created 36 documentary series for PBS, all of them about American history, from ...

Whenever I imagine Leonardo da Vinci, I invariably picture Patrick Godfrey, the white-whiskered British actor who played him in the 1998 Cinderella movie Ever After. What the Italian painter actually ...

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance. But, ...

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and starts very early in the 16th century. By now it has been seen by billions of ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired future generations, and it finds in his soaring imagination and profound intellect the foundation for a conversation we are still ...

Leonardo da Vinci's the Mona Lisa. We'll never know what da Vinci was thinking when he painted the woman with the enigmatic smile. But new research offers some clues into what he might have been ...

Bernardino de’ Conti's side-profile depiction of a noblewoman last sold in 1993 for just $249,000. Bernardino de' Conti, Portrait of an Elegantly-Attired Noblewoman in Profile (circa 1500). Image ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. More than 10,000 pages of Leonardo's personal notes survive, most ...

Among the multiple masterpieces given a scrupulous examination in “Leonardo da Vinci” is “Lady With an Ermine” (1486-89), which marked a turning point, we are told, in the artist’s career: a ...

In 1997, Christie’s offered for auction a painting that the house thought had originated in 19th-century Germany. Tentatively titled Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress, it sold for about ...

The presumed self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci (1512), red onvhalk on paper (via Biblioteca Reale, Turin/Wikimedia) Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) imaging of fungal and bacterial structures on ...

Turns throughout PBS' “Leonardo da Vinci” remind us of how similar his era was to ours. Da Vinci’s Renaissance was a time of doubt and great uncertainty. His native city of Florence, Italy, was an ...