Michelangelo, who had just completed his statue David, and Leonardo da Vinci were already in Florence; Raphael traveled to the city that year to study Leonardo’s work. Leonardo, who was around ...

At the turn of the 16th century, Florence was the scene for "what may have been the ultimate clash of the titans of Western ...

His father, Ser Piero da Vinci, held elevated status ... himself how a leg bends or an arm cradles. Leonardo’s contemporaries, including rival Michelangelo, studied muscles and bones to improve ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that ...

His return to Florence coincided with Leonardo da Vinci's, leading to a famous rivalry between the two masters. It was at this time that Michelangelo created the colossal 17-foot statue of David ...

An estimated 260 million people around the globe live left-handed lives in a right-handed world, Leonardo da Vinci and Alexander the Great were lefthanded, and so were Babe Ruth, Michelangelo and ...

But the story of this perplexing portrait of 'Mona Lisa' is even richer than it looks. Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is one of the most admired, most studied, and most reproduced paintings ...