Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and this iconic piece of art captured a disease that his subject likely had. A paper found two markers of a genetic cholesterol disorder in the lady, which he believes could have also been the reason for her early death.

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa captured a disease that was not medically discovered for 346 years

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is known for its mysterious expression. Not only that, the painting is a well-known mystery, from who the subject is, to where the painting is situated a.

SOLVED! Decades-old mystery behind location of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. All you need to know

A team of scientists in France and Britain has detected a rare mineral compound within the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting. According to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Leonardo da Vinci, a painter, inventor and anatomist, created the Mona Lisa using a technique seen in works a century later.

Mona Lisa reflects Leonardo da Vinci's genius in more ways than one. Here's how

A trailer for the upcoming film The Inventor is here. The stop-motion animated film is based on the life and times of one Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath from the Renaissance era who is widely considered one of the greatest artists and, indeed, inventors in history.

The Inventor trailer: Stephen Fry becomes Leonardo da Vinci in this charming stop-motion film

Italian historian Silvano Vinceti has claimed that the bridge in the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting Mona Lisa belongs to a small town in Tuscany, reported The Guardian.

Italian historian claims to have found location of bridge in Mona Lisa painting

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath and legendary artist, explored the "attraction of one object to another" to deconstruct the science of gravity a century before physicist Galileo Galilei and two centuries before Isaac Newton, a new study has revealed.

Leonardo da Vinci pulled off gravity genius two centuries before Newton, study reveals

The World's most expensive painting, The Salvator Mundi, has turned out to be a fake. The owner of the painting is believed to be Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Salvator Mundi was bought for $450,000,000. Turns out, Leonardo Da Vinci may have never painted it. So, who did?

Gravitas: Is the World's most expensive painting a fake?

A faithful copy of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa,' one of the world's most recognisable portraits, sold for 210,000 euros ($242,634) at a Paris auction on Tuesday.

'Mona Lisa' copy goes under the hammer for 210,000 euros in Paris auction

France's culture ministry has sued the owner of a small pen-and-ink drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which lay buried unrecognised in a box for decades. The piece was among several drawings and engravings that Jean B.

France's culture ministry sues owner of Leonardo da Vinci's rare sketch worth $16 million

France's culture ministry sues owner of rare sketch of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting ‘Salvator Mundi’ that has been missing for years recently premiered at the Tribeca Festival. Titled The Lost Leonardo, it tells the incredible story of how the Salvator Mundi changed hands in recent years, then was sold at auction in 2017 for $450 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting.

'Male Mona Lisa' mystery solved: 'Lost Leonardo' to premiere at Tribeca Film Fest

Italian police have found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in a Naples flat and returned it to a church that had no idea it had been stolen.

Stolen 500-year-old Leonardo Da Vinci painting recovered in Italy

A stolen copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year-old Salvator Mundi was found by police in a Naples flat. Authorities have returned the painting to a museum which had no idea it had gone missing.

Stolen 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' recovered

Leonardo da Vinci's famous mechanical lion on Wednesday went on display in Paris for a month, in a tribute to the Renaissance master 500 years after his death. The lion, which is two metres (six feet, seven inches) high and three metres long and made of wood with a metal mechanism, is a reconstruction based on a rudimentary sketch left by da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical lion goes on display in Paris

Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci's litany of exquisite but unfinished work shows he probably had an attention disorder common to modern society. That is the view of psychiatry professor Marco Catani, who believes Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) explains both da Vinci's chronic procrastination and his creative drive in the arts and sciences.

Procrastinating genius: Did Leonardo da Vinci have attention disorder?

2019 marks 500 years since the passing of one of the world's truly great geniuses – Leonardo da Vinci. The anniversary is being marked in many ways, and on Tuesday the Vatican Museums hosted a 'study day' to coincide with the conclusion of 18 months of restoration work on a tapestry inspired by Leonardo's 'Last Supper.'

'Last Supper' tapestry marks da Vinci anniversary

An Italian museum says it plans to carry out DNA tests on a lock of hair it believes might have belonged to the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago this month.

Italian museum looks to unlock da Vinci hair mystery

Leonardo Da Vinci's tuft of hair went on display on Thursday in an exhibition called "Leonardo Vive" spanning two new museums in the artist's Tuscan birthplace of Vinci that will run through Dec. 31.

Da Vinci experts hope to resolve mystery of hair

The Loire Valley town of Amboise will kick off festivities marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death in style on Thursday, with the French and Italian presidents topping the bill.

France, Italy mark 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death

The recently opened museum announced on Wednesday that the painting will be heading there, without indicating if they had purchased it in the auction which took place in New York

Da Vinci's $450m Salvator Mundi painting to be seen in Louvre Abu Dhabi soon

Leonardo da Vinci`s portrait of Christ 'Salvator Mundi' sold for a record-smashing $450.3 million on Wednesday at Christie`s in New York

Da Vinci portrait of Christ sells for record $450.3 mln in New York

The Salvator Mundi is one of only 16 known remaining da Vincis, the most famous of which of course is the Mona Lisa which hangs at the Louvre in Paris

Long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting goes on sale Wednesday night -- for at least $100 million

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