It’s difficult for art conservators to restore damaged paintings and illustrations if they’re unsure exactly what’s caused the damage. Just as curing an illness without knowing its cause can become ...

ROME — Experts unveiled Thursday a previously unknown portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, showing the artist and inventor as a middle-aged man with piercing eyes and long, flowing hair. The painting, ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A portrait that sold at Christie’s auction house for just $21,000 is ...

Is it, or isn’t it? Is the Renaissance painting sold at a 2005 New Orleans art auction truly a rediscovered portrait of Christ by the master himself, Leonardo da Vinci? Or is the “Salvator Mundi,” as ...

Among the multiple masterpieces given a scrupulous examination in “Leonardo da Vinci” is “Lady With an Ermine” (1486-89), which marked a turning point, we are told, in the artist’s career: a ...

The only widely accepted self-portrait by da Vinci has developed red blotches, fungi, and spots, referred to as "foxing." The small size of the work (it's only 13.2" x 8.5") combined with its extreme ...

ROME (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci is sick and no one really knows if he ever will be able to receive visitors again. Art conservation and restoration experts recently concluded weeks of tests on the ...

ROME (Reuters) - A sketch obscured by handwriting for five centuries in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks may be a youthful self-portrait, according to Italian experts who "aged" the sketch to ...