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An Italian scholar says a terracotta statuette in the collection of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is by Leonardo da Vinci, even though the museum isn’t convinced. According to The Art Newspaper, art history professor Francesco Caglioti of the University of Naples Federico II attributed the sculpture, known as The Virgin with the Laughing Child ...

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, most commonly referred to as Leonardo da Vinci, embodied a true Italian Renaissance Man with interests in the arts, architecture, literature & writing, astronomy & anatomy, mathematics, engineering/invention, and many more. Widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time, da Vinci also made substantial dis...

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Friday, February 15th at 7:00pm EST. Westchester Italian Cultural Center | One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Please register in advance by calling 914-771-8700 or click here to register online! Presented by John Coppola. Members $20; Non-Members $25 The Mona Lisa and the Salvator Mundi are two of the greatest masterpieces by Leonardo Da...

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L.A. Italia Fest is set to open with the world premiere of Amazing Leonardo, a new biopic about Leonardo Da Vinci, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death (May 2, 1519). Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) stars as Da Vinci in the film, a Sky original production with Progetto Immagine.  Director Jesus Garces Lambert will introduc...

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Among religious subjects, The Last Supper has been a favorite inspiration for many works of art, and numerous are the great masters who addressed this theme in some of their best known masterpieces. As far back as in the times of the early Christians, there were pictorial representations of the meal that could be found in the catacombs of Rome. The...

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A stone house surrounded by olive trees in the hills of Anchiano, on the slopes of Montalbano, just above Vinci, 45 km from Florence: this is where the genius Leonardo da Vinci is said to have been born in 1452. He was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a notary, and a young woman named Caterina. Leonardo grew up with his grandfather, Anto...

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Milan is gearing up to pay tribute to Leonardo da Vinci on the 500th anniversary of his death with a series of events as part of the 'Milano Leonardo 500' programme, which was presented in London on January 18. Italian Ambassador to the UK Raffaele Trombetta and London Deputy Mayor for Culture Justine Simons both attended the presentation.  One of...

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La moneta verrà emessa in versione per la circolazione, in versione coincard (FDC) e in versione Proof (Cofanetto). La moneta raffigura La Dama con l’ermellino è un dipinto a olio su tavola (54 ×40 cm) di Leonardo da Vinci, databile al 1488-1490. La donna ritratta va quasi sicuramente identificata con Cecilia Gallerani; sulla parte sinistra, la scr...

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When: Friday, February 15 at 6:30 pm - Where: Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason, Building C Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he...

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As I wrote in my August 27th La Voce article, “Leonardo Da Vinci Still Making Headlines” Leonardo was born in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci on April 15, 1452, the oldest illegitimate son of a promiscuous wealthy notary and a peasant.He died at 67 on May 2, 1519 near Amboise in France where he’d lived his last three years as a guest of the French Ki...

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