The art historian Matthew Holman makes a personal selection from the finest collection of its type—celebrated for the breadth and depth of the story it tells of Western painting up to 1900

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ‘The Last Supper’ to two versions of ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’

The new study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of his time

Shoppers will get the chance to see a version of the Mona Lisa while rifling through the racks

The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance

A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries depicting the Battle of Pavia on view in San Francisco

Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month

Paris museum plugs forthcoming 'Madman' show in canny marketing move

Could the long-lost work end up in a Saudi museum run by ex-British Museum chief?

Conservative critics were angered by ‘Last Supper parody’, but art historians say the performance looks instead to a 17th-century Dutch work

Moore, who is also an executive producer on the series, will star as art restorer Dianne Modestini

We speak to the Leonardo da Vinci scholar, Martin Kemp, about the famous painting's potential move and the latest research on its background, to the US artist about her show at Serpentine North and to the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna about Christian Schad’s 'Self-Portrait with Model' (1927)

A geologist claims to have identified the landscape in Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous work as being that of a particular city in northern Italy, but some experts disagree

The author of a new book tells us why it was stolen and how Picasso got embroiled in the scandal

Members of Riposte Alimentaire demand the right to "healthy and sustainable food" after splattering pumpkin soup over the protective glazing in front of the world's most-viewed painting

The Washington, DC museum will move “Ginevra de' Benci” to a different gallery through early 2024

Kody Young fills in the blanks for Leonardo, Hopper and Botticelli

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”