Leonardo da Vinci

Culture news

Activists throw soup at Mona Lisa painting in Louvre Museum

The group "Food Riposte" claimed responsibility for the 'art attack' and said the French government is breaking its climate commitments.

28/01/2024

Culture news

Masterpiece or fraud? Second Mona Lisa goes on display in Italy

Experts are divided over whether a painting, the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa" is a superior Leonardo da Vinci original or an inferior copy...

30/11/2023

Culture news

Culture Weekly Re-View: Hollywood actors strike and Spacey testifies

Hollywood actors join screenwriters on strike, The Netherlands pledges to return artefacts to Indonesia, Kevin Spacey gives testimony in court while the jury is out at the Venice Film Festival.

16/07/2023

Culture news

US capital hosts 12 'beautiful, glowing' Leonardo da Vinci sketches

The city of Washington, DC is hosting 12 original sketches and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci that illustrate the Renaissance master’s interests and research into fields including geometry and physics.

15/07/2023

Culture news

Italian historian claims to have finally identified Mona Lisa's bridge

An Italian historian has claimed to have identified the bridge depicted in the background of Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Mona Lisa painting.

04/05/2023

Culture news

Italian novelist says Leonardo's da Vinci's mother was a slave

Research into the iconic polymath's parentage has claimed da Vinci's mother was not a Tuscan peasant, as previously thought, but a slave from the Caucasus.

16/03/2023

Culture news

CULTURE RE-VIEW: A look back at this day in history

CULTURE RE-VIEW: Da Vinci's famous Codex Leicester is sold; London's Waterloo Bridge opens and Dolly Parton premieres 9 to 5 - the movie

12/12/2022

Art

Man who was "mad at his girl" smashes $5 million of art in US museum

21-year-old man Brian Hernandez told the police he was upset "at his girl" when he broke into the Dallas Museum of Art through a window and smashed millennia-old artworks valued at millions.

03/06/2022

Culture news

Watch: Man disguised as 'old woman' attacks Mona Lisa with cake

Cake was smeared over the protective glass covering the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris on May 29, with the person described as being responsible indicating he was an environmental protester.

30/05/2022

Art

What did Leonardo Da Vinci and Picasso doodle while bored?

A new exhibition in Rome explores doodles, sketches and caricatures through the ages.

03/03/2022

Art

World's best known Da Vinci replica sold for €210,000 in Paris

The 17th century copy, best known as Hekking's Mona Lisa, exceeded estimates by some margin today Christie's auction house in Paris.

10/11/2021

Green News

How Da Vinci's education could be the key to tackling climate change

Could Leonardo Da Vinci be the answer to tackling climate change? Researchers at the University of Cambridge think so.

11/05/2021

Work

Inside the project to create a 3D 'twin' of Michelangelo’s David

David conquered Goliath, but can modern experts overcome challenges to make a 3D copy of Michelangelo's majestic statue worthy of the Renaissance giant?

14/04/2021

France

Mona Lisa made from Rubik's Cubes sells for €480,000

The work, made with 330 Rubik's Cubes, is by the French artist Invader.

24/02/2020

France

Louvre pulls an all-nighter for last weekend of Da Vinci exhibition

The Louvre Museum in Paris has announced it will be open day and night, on Saturday and Sunday, to mark the end of its Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition.

22/02/2020

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Not quite cubism: 'Rubik's Mona Lisa' to go under the hammer in Paris

A street art Rubik's Cube version of the "Mona Lisa" is expected to sell for up to 150,000 euros ($166,000) when it goes under the hammer in Paris this month.

04/02/2020