All posts in Leonardo da Vinci
Art World Roundup: Hockney portrait to remain at ROH, artist Divya Mehra sets repatriation in motion, human DNA found on da Vinci drawings, and more
In this week’s Art World Roundup, a Hockney portrait will stay at the Royal Opera House after it was sold, the Scottish Gallery presents two concurrent exhibitions of works by […]
Art historian attributes recently resurfaced drawing to Leonardo da Vinci
It could perhaps be said that every art historian who has embarked on the path of research hopes, if only even slightly, to make a discovery unlike any other. For […]
Researchers suggest da Vinci’s “lost masterpiece” was never actually painted
You can’t lose something that never existed. That’s what some researchers have to say about a work by Leonardo da Vinci known as the “lost masterpiece.” While a full-scale cartoon […]
Art World Roundup: What’s below the Mona Lisa, philanthropists band together to aid BIPOC organisations, and more
In this week’s Art World Roundup, we look at a new study shedding more like on the Mona Lisa and a report with surprising information on the state of the illicit […]
From the basement to the gallery wall: masterworks plucked from obscurity
The small, postcard-sized painting known as Head of a Bearded Man, has once again regained pride of place in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum after years in storage. The Rembrandt Research Project […]
Art World Roundup: update on theft of “America” and the boy thrown from Tate Modern, recognition of Juneteenth and the Windrush generation, seeing “The Last Supper” in high-def, and more
In the artworld this week, we learned of a new monument that will recognise the Windrush generation and saw Nancy Pelosi remove portraits of Confederate House Speakers. The 18-year-old who […]
‘Leonardo da Vinci’ shatters Louvre exhibition attendance records
After running its course, the numbers are finally out for the Louvre’s blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition and a blockbuster it was. A staggering 1,071,840 people ended up waiting their […]
