News
First Leonardo da Vinci Museum in the US Coming This Fall
The Colorado museum will focus on the artist’s engineering endeavors, bringing his drawings, text, and experiments to life through interactive models.
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Books
Leonardo da Vinci’s Surreptitious Scents
A new catalog invites us into the artist’s interest in smell and the role of perfumes during the Renaissance, with bonus recipes for those with a nose for fragrance.
News
Is This “Earlier Mona Lisa” the Real Deal?
Some scholars believe that the portrait is a Leonardo original painted by the Renaissance artist before he made the more famous work housed at the Louvre.
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Historian May Have Identified the Bridge in the “Mona Lisa”
Silvano Vinceti’s research asserts that the four-arched bridge in the portrait is the Ponte Romito in the province of Arezzo, Italy.
Art
Can We Find Compassion in the Grotesque?
Monstrous Faces and Caricatures invites viewers to confront ugliness and the questions it raises about how we relate to it.
News
Why Did the Old Masters Add Egg Yolk to Paint?
It was long assumed the trace amounts of proteins found in paintings were due to contamination, but a new study suggests the use of egg was deliberate.
News
Newton Who? Leonardo Explored Gravity First
A new analysis of diagrams drawn in the artist's personal notebook reveals a near-accurate model of Earth's gravitational pull.
Art
How Leonardo’s “Monstrous” Drawings Inspired Modern Caricature
"Grotesque Head of an Old Woman," recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression.
Film
There Are Now Not One But Two Documentaries About the Salvator Mundi Saga
Both The Lost Leonardo and Savior for Sale dig into how museums and galleries are not merely complicit with the unregulated art-industrial complex, but are necessary to it.
News
People Want Jeff Bezos to Buy the Mona Lisa and Eat it
The viral petition has over 4,500 signatures.
News
From da Vinci to Bosch, the 10 Most Googled Paintings of 2020
The list of artworks is based on data from 155 different countries.
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Sections of Salvator Mundi Not Part of Leonardo’s Original Design, Research Suggests
Two recent investigations of “Salvator Mundi,” including one conducted by the Louvre, now offer new avenues for skepticism.