Scientists have discovered a new secret about how Leonardo da Vinci painted his enigmatic masterpiece, “The Mona Lisa.” The innovative Renaissance painter invented a unique chemical formula for the ...

Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter. He created thousands of drawings in his notebooks in which he wrote obsessively, and while ...

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mona Lisa, one of the world’s most famous and most studied paintings, still has secrets to tell. Scientists recently used ...

A new analysis of a tiny fragment from the base layer of one of the world’s most recognizable works of art, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” is shedding new light on the work of the Italian ...

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

The world’s most famous portrait is not hidden from view, nor quietly circulating between private collectors. Today, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa hangs behind layers of security inside the Louvre ...

A rare chemical compound called plumbonacrite has been found on the underpainting of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which sheds light on his processes, according to new research. The presence of the ...

When visitors step into the Louvre, most make a beeline for one small painting. It isn’t the largest, most colorful, or even the most technically complex artwork there. Yet, the Mona Lisa commands ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...