The Bible was commissioned by Borso D’Este, who became duke of Ferrara in northeastern Italy in the mid-1400s. Borso enlisted ...

The Borso D’Este Bible, famed for its intricate gold and lapis-lazuli illuminations, is accessible to the public in Italian ...

THIS is the shocking moment two pranksters successfully sneak a painting into the Louvre and hang it in the same room as the ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and ...

TOKYO – The Mona Lisa may hide many secrets behind her enigmatic smile, but the sound of her voice may no longer be one of them, thanks to the work of a Japanese forensics expert. Matsumi Suzuki, a ...

The site of excavations at the Sant'Orsolo convent in Florence, where bone fragments believed to be those of Mona Lisa were recovered. EPA ROME — Italian researchers said on Thursday they might have ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

It may be that a restored copy of the Mona Lisa, recently unveiled at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, was painted by Leonardo da Vinci's assistant and purported lover, Salaì, Martin Bailey reports for ...

It’s the kind of holiday décor that doesn’t just sit quietly in the corner. It winks at you. It smirks. It invites your cat to claw away with the confidence of a Renaissance artist taking creative ...