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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A portrait that sold at Christie’s auction house for just $21,000 is ...

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 ...

Is it, or isn’t it? Is the Renaissance painting sold at a 2005 New Orleans art auction truly a rediscovered portrait of Christ by the master himself, Leonardo da Vinci? Or is the “Salvator Mundi,” as ...

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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 ...

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, ...