leonardo da vinci

December 8, 2015
The Mona Lisa is once again making headlines.

December 3, 2015
Martin Bailey reports in the Art Newspaper that infamous British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh has claimed authorship of a portrait thought by some to be by Leonardo da Vinci .

October 30, 2015
Cinquecento (Salone dei): The main meeting hall of the Grand Council of Florence, so named because, at the time of construction (1494), the council boasted 500 members.

July 20, 2015
In an exceptional event, the only known self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci is on display at the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

April 15, 2015
Two exhibitions open 15 April 2015, the 563rd anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s birth.

February 21, 2015
Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty opens 21 February 2015 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, where it will remain on view through 5 April.

February 17, 2015
In October 2013, a painting kept in a Swiss bank vault was claimed by some to be a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

January 1, 2015
IASblog top posts 2014

October 2, 2014
Leonardo da Vinci ‘s Adoration has emerged from the conservation lab of Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure, where it has been under investigation since December 2012.

August 5, 2014
A twenty-one-year-old Leonardo da Vinci dated this landscape drawing on this day in 1473.