New research suggests work could be a prototype of an idealised “Venus” portrait designed by Leonardo himself

From the largest Leonardo da Vinci show in half a century, at the Queen's Gallery, to the first retrospective of Luchita Hurtado at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery

High-level diplomacy is being used to secure the artist’s most important works for blockbuster anniversary show in Paris

Unusual month-long display of recently restored work by Leonardo’s favourite and heir will be lent by the State Hermitage Museum

There has been intense competition to borrow works by the artist during the 500th anniversary of his death this year

The drawing, believed to be one of only two contemporary images of the artist, will go on show for the first time at the Queen’s Gallery in London

Reservations will mainly be online as French museum anticipates record visitor figures

The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting

The Virgin and Laughing Child was recently re-attributed as the artist's “only surviving sculpture”

A version of the Mona Lisa by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci recently sold at Sotheby's for $1.69m

Claims that it had "cancelled plans" to show the work are "fake information", the museum says

Italian scholar says terracotta statuette, currently attributed to Antonio Rossellino, is actually by the 15th-century master

Facts seem no longer to matter with the famous picture

Drawings from the Royal Collection go on show around the country this week before larger surveys in London and Edinburgh later in the year

The mark is “the most convincing candidate for an authentic Leonardo fingerprint” among the Queen’s 550 works by the great artist

Populist government says sending paintings to French museum would put Italy 'on the margins of a great cultural event'

Major Leonardo and Rembrandt anniversaries mean a wealth of shows focusing on the Old Masters, but Tintoretto, the Bauhaus or even Bill Viola could be dark horses

Pushkin Museum’s Giampietrino painting may be the one listed in inventory of Charles I’s collection, rather than the Abu Dhabi work

New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester

Art UK's Twitter hashtag encourages an arty take on the popular Channel 4 programme

Curator returns to the UK where he organised the blockbuster 2011 Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London

The mega-collector’s latest lawsuit, filed in New York, escalates his three-year legal feud with Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier

The work was bought by a Baton Rouge family for about $120 while travelling in London in 1958, the Wall Street Journal reports

The seller says that the painting, titled A Young Girl in Furs, was authenticated by the Stockholm art valuation firm Atelje Catellani

$450.3m Leonardo da Vinci painting was due to be unveiled at museum in two weeks but its display has now been delayed

The Art Newspaper invites Matthew Landrus to expand on his theory on attribution to Leonardo and studio

New technology allows novices and scholars to zoom in on the artist’s sketches and notes

Did Louvre Abu Dhabi’s $450m painting belong to an English nobleman who followed Charles I to the scaffold in 1649?

The painting will be lent to the Louvre in Paris next year for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of artist's death