A network of secret tunnels drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 has now been discovered beneath an Italian castle.

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification.

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

Unfortunately, no confirmed authentic works of Wang have survived and the reliability of the some hundred ancient copies ...

Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images When Tom Hanks found himself with his pants down in front of the iconic Mona Lisa ...

Leonardo da Vinci understood the power of melding human thinking and creation with nature’s intelligence—an approach to ...

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.

Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch,” another novel about another Dutch painting from the same period, hanging in the same museum, the Maurithuis in The Hague, won ...