Analytical Chemistry
Oct 11, 2023
Scientists pry a secret from the 'Mona Lisa' about how Leonardo painted the masterpiece
The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret.
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Archaeology
Apr 14, 2023
Synchrotron technique reveals more details of mysterious underlying portrait in Renaissance painting
Conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales have used an advanced imaging technique at the Australian Synchrotron to gain more information about an underpainting in a famous Renaissance portrait of Cosimo ...
Archaeology
Mar 29, 2023
Leonardo da Vinci's mother might have been a slave. Here's what the discovery reveals about Renaissance Europe
A recently discovered note, drawn up by Leonardo da Vinci's father, Piero, in November 1452, shows that he emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina.
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2023
The art of balding: A brief history of hairless men
Balding is really common, affecting more than 50% of men. It's also physically inconsequential (bald men live just as long as haired men). So why, in his memoir Spare, does Prince Harry refer to his brother's baldness as ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 6, 2022
Art museums team up with scientists to ferret out fakes
Forgeries are a lucrative global market created by artists so skilled in both their craft and their duplicity that they sometimes fool even the experts.
Archaeology
Aug 6, 2020
Raphael's face reconstructed to solve tomb mystery
Art sleuths have created a 3-D reconstruction of the face of Italian painter Raphael, solving an age-old mystery over his final resting place, Rome's Tor Vergata University told AFP Thursday.
Other
May 2, 2019
Experts comb through DNA from possible Da Vinci hair
A lock of what some historians think is Leonardo da Vinci's hair went on display Thursday at a museum in his Tuscan birthplace as they seek to prove it contains his DNA 500 years after the genius died.
Other
Mar 12, 2019
Major Rome exhibition to celebrate Leonardo da Vinci
A major exhibition dedicated to the scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci opens in Rome on Wednesday, part of festivities to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of the artist and inventor.
Other
Oct 22, 2018
Eye disorder may have helped Da Vinci's art: journal
A common eye disorder may help explain Leonardo Da Vinci's talent for three-dimensional representation and the sense of perspective in his mountain landscapes, according to research published in an academic journal.
Archaeology
May 18, 2017
Art community remains divided over Caravaggio found in French attic
An original Caravaggio or a master fake? This is the question that continues to befuddle art historians and experts about a painting discovered in a French attic three years ago.
