Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been long studied and celebrated for its virtuosic composition and sfumato technique, its mysterious background and sitter, but two experimental psychologists in ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a master of many things: Anatomy, mathematics, cartography, and geology (just to name a few). He also created a number of masterpieces. Individuals the world over are familiar ...

A new high-tech study of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa suggests that the Renaissance master created the painting using a previously unknown preparatory sketch. The faint traces of a charcoal ...

Leonardo DaVinci’s Mona Lisa (circa 1503–06), displayed behind bullet-proof glass at the Louvre in Paris, is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Less well-known is a copy of the work held ...