The engineering for this gilded copper ball, completed during his apprenticeship with artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, made a lasting impact on Leonardo da Vinci. Checking for lightning ...

A fresco is a painting technique in which the colours ... decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, inside the Vatican, and Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted on the wall of the ...

Leonardo da Vinci gives us the iconic Last Supper ... actually hired him to decorate his palace -- now the Vatican Museum -- with his paintings. The classical decor and ancient treasures that ...

Leonardo da Vinci, a key historical figure of the Renaissance, left a small but precious collection of paintings. These works, scattered around the world's greatest museums, continue to delight ...

What real changes can we expect from the Synod on Synodality? How is the Vatican responding to the rapidly expanding war in the Middle East? And who is rumored to succeed Pope Francis? Colleen ...

In a frenzy, Freud gathered histories, criticisms, novels, replica works and in 1910 published Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of ... here was the greatest artist of his day who not only eschewed ...

Poldark actor Aidan Turner has said he is "glad" that a new historical drama about Leonardo da Vinci reflects the artist's sexuality. The Amazon Prime TV series stars Turner as the Renaissance ...

Borghese also encouraged and collected Caravaggio, another key early-Baroque artist, from Rome rather than Bologna. In 1607, Borghese made his first great acquisitions when the Vatican seized one ...

Visitors from all over are lining up at the Louvre, the Vatican and the Uffizi museums, posing problems for institutions trying to balance accessibility with art preservation. Vatican officials ...