Carmen Bambach, a specialist in Italian art and curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, found the discovery ... hidden layers under the painting, showing da Vinci's amendments including ...

For example, a mixture called 'lead acrylate' was found only in Da Vinci's later paintings. In addition, ' blue lead ' was found in the base layer of the Mona Lisa, which is not found in other Da ...

Da Vinci left behind about 6,000 pages of notebook entries on subjects ranging from geology, water, birds in flight, gravity and the different subjects of his paintings. “On these pages are an ...

A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder, has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. Police said that the thieves posed as visitors to the castle, in Dumfries and ...

A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Madonna with the Yarnwinder, was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland today, police said. The castle is home to one of Scotland's richest landowners and contains ...

One tour guide has vented his frustration at a commonly asked question he hears when he takes tourists to see Leonardo da Vinci's iconic 'Last Supper' painting. Picture: Supplied No, Jesus did not ...