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Leonardo and His Double

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 13, 2019July 15, 2019

Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.

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Mona Lisa, Revisited: History’s Symbol and Muse

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez May 11, 2019May 10, 2019

With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, Naoto Nakagawa puts Leonardo’s mysteriously grinning subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments in ambitious, complex images.

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After Diplomatic Squabble, Italy Agrees to Lend France Its Leonardos for Major Exhibition

Avatar photo by Zachary Small March 4, 2019March 5, 2019

Italy’s rightwing government initially refused France’s request for Leonardos because it believed the Louvre exhibition would “put Italy on the margins of a major cultural event.”

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An Art Historian Says Leonardo da Vinci’s Only Known Sculpture Is in London’s V&A Museum

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne February 12, 2019

The new attribution reignites a century-long debate over the authorship of “The Virgin with the Laughing Child,” a Renaissance-era statuette currently attributed to Antonio Rossellino.

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Salvator Mundi’s Mysterious Journey to the Gulf [UPDATED]

by Shirine Saad January 11, 2019January 14, 2019

The painting’s voyage, from the record-breaking Christie’s auction to the mysterious postponing of its unveiling, reflects deep regional ideological and geopolitical rifts — but the debate has hardly played out in the Arabic-language media.

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Leonardo da Vinci May Have Had a Rare Eye Condition that Affected His Portraits

Avatar photo by Zachary Small October 19, 2018

Other researchers have similarly claimed that other famous painters like Rembrandt and Edgar Degas had the same condition. This study, curiously, uses Salvator Mundi for analysis.

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Looking for Leonardo in Verrocchio’s Studio

by Natasha Seaman September 22, 2018September 21, 2018

Leonardo’s hand is fleshed out in this exhibition, but so is that of Lorenzo di Credi, Jacopo del Sellaio, and other workshop assistants to whom no name can be attached.

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Leonardo Had Help: Oxford Art Historian Asserts New Attribution for ‘Salvator Mundi’

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 10, 2018August 10, 2018

Matthew Landrus believes the painting, which Louvre Abu Dhabi bought at auction for $450.3 million in 2017, better resembles the work of Bernardino Luini, an assistant in Da Vinci’s studio.

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For the Love of Leonardo

by Paul D'Agostino June 3, 2018June 6, 2018

A slew of new books rethinks the Renaissance in general and Leonardo da Vinci in particular.

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Long Disputed, a Painting In Massachusetts Is Now Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci

by Claire Voon May 2, 2018May 3, 2018

Long attributed to Lorenze di Credi, new research suggesting a small panel painting at the Worcester Art Museum is actually by one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance.

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Six Famous Paintings that Were Given New Names

by Elena Goukassian February 15, 2018February 28, 2018

Non-artists have renamed famous paintings before, and they certainly will again.

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The Incredible Prescience of Leonardo da Vinci

by Jessica Campbell January 9, 2018January 10, 2018

A newly discovered journal has revealed that Leonardo developed early versions of 21st century trends, from fidget spinners to cat cafés.

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