While researching a work of historical fiction, Carlo Vecce says he found a document signed by Leonardo da Vinci’s father implying his mother was an enslaved woman from the North Caucasus region

New York judge rules the auction house must face trial as part of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s art fraud lawsuit

Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio

The first scholarly study of a true dilettante of Old Masters, antiquities and new works, reveals an indomitable, questing soul

There was an "open-minded and collegiate atmosphere" during scholarly proceedings in Leipzig, notably untouched by Leonardo "politics"

The drawing, Grotesque Head of an Old Woman (1489-90), was last displayed at the museum in 2017 and is now available for study

The Art Newspaper charts the existence of the world's most expensive work of art, from 1478 to today

Respected textiles scholar and dealer Michael Franses was employed in 2009, by one of the syndicate who owned the painting, to offer it for sale to a handful of the world's leading museums

Martin Clayton, the Royal Collection Trust's head of prints and drawings presented his research at a major conference in Leipzig

The story of the "Léonard de Vinci. Le Salvator Mundi" publication that was withdrawn from sale

At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display

Warranties of authenticity offered to buyers can be hard to enforce when auctioneers can fall back on the “generally accepted opinion of scholars and experts”

The painting has not been seen in public since it was allegedly bought by the Saudi Crown Prince for $450m in 2017—but the art historian Martin Kemp suggests it may soon be brought "into the light"

Eden Collinsworth tells a breathless, flowery tale of the celebrated Cecilia Gallerani portrait

A painting of a princess possibly by the Old Master has been sold digitally—but questions remain over its provenance, the inherent value of non-fungible tokens and who owns what

Move follows €240,000 sale of NFT of Michelangelo work, with Uffizi taking a share of the profits

"There are people who are destroying the planet, that's why I did it," the vandal said

The Da Vinci Face platform uses using artificial intelligence and sophisticated algorithms to transform you into an Old Master

Robert B. Simon, the New York dealer who earlier had an interest in the $450m painting, questions our front-page article about a Prado catalogue downgrading the work from a fully authenticated Leonardo

Publication for Mona Lisa show puts the painting in category of works that are attributed to, or authorised or supervised by the Renaissance master

Exhibition on Madrid museum’s copy of the Mona Lisa sheds new light on the original

The documentary features experts including editor-in-chief of The Art Newspaper, Alison Cole, and editor-at-large Georgina Adam

The tiny "Post It note" drawing was sold by Thomas Kaplan, owner of the Leiden collection of Rembrandts, who bought it in 2008 based on a fax

An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned

The documentary film about the world’s most scrutinised painting, by the Danish director Andreas Koefoed, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday

The work is expected to fetch up to £12m in a live sale at Christie's London this July