Leonardo da Vinci

Cities around the country are in da Vinci mode with shows about Leonardo da Vinci's art and inventions. In New York, "Leonardo Da Vinci's Workshop: Inventor + Artist + Dreamer," opens Nov. 20 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition and runs through April 4. The show offers full-scale, interactive models of da Vinci's inventions, including his ideas for the airplane, automobile, robot knight and mechanical lion. In Baltimore, "Da Vinci — The Genius: A Traveling Exhibit" at the Maryland Science Center through Jan. 31 features some of his inventions, anatomical drawings and writings, plus "secrets of 'The Last Supper' and the 'Mona Lisa' revealed ... Read Full Story

A Welsh town was on Wednesday hoping to enter the record books for creating the world's largest copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the world. Hundreds of Wrexham residents reproduced Da Vinci's famous enigmatic smile by painting 82 vinyl tiles to produce a massive portrait measuring 240 square metres. The giant artwork, which is 50 times the size of the original, will be scrutinised by Guinness World Records at the town's Eagles Meadow shopping centre. The work is the brainchild of artist Katy Webster and sections will be sold off to those making a donation to local ... Read Full Story

Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci — in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said Tuesday that a fingerprint on what was presumed to be a 19th-century German painting of a young woman has convinced art experts that it's actually a da Vinci. Canadian-born art collector Peter Silverman bought "Profile of the Bella Principessa" at the Ganz gallery in New York on behalf of an anonymous Swiss collector in 2007 for about $19,000. New York art dealer Kate Ganz had owned it for about 11 years after buying it ... Read Full Story

Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci — in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said Tuesday a fingerprint on what was presumed to be a 19th-century German painting of a young woman has convinced art experts that it's actually a da Vinci. Biro said Canadian-born art collector Peter Silverman bought "La Bella Principessa" at auction in 1997 for about $19,000. One London art dealer now says it's worth over $150 million. If experts are correct, it will be the first major work by da Vinci to be identified in ... Read Full Story

This amazing piece of art shows the iconic image of Mona Lisa originally painted by Leonardo da Vinci. This interpretation is actually sidewalk art put together by a group of artist assistants in Sydney, Australia. The image was created by using 3,604 coffee cups. Each cup was filled with different amounts of coffee and milk to create the proper pigment color that brings Mona Lisa to life. Post from Amazing Sidewalk Art Example in Sydney Australia Read Full Story