It may be hard to believe that, half a millenium ago, the project helped fuel one of the Renaissance's greatest rivalries, attended by stories of sex, violent rows, money and a dirty, bitter, misshapen genius in dogskin boots.

This week the Tate Modern became the victim of art vandalism after Vladimir Umanets allegedly daubed his signature on Mark Rothko's 1958 painting Blac...

Could this skull skeleton have belonged to the most famous muse in art? Archaeologists digging beneath a Tuscan convent believe their search for th...

A self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci is covered in 'mould' and will likely prove impossible to repair. The precious red chalk drawing of the elderl...

A record-breaking show of Lucian Freud paintings will open until midnight for three days to cope with unprecedented visitor numbers. The exhibition...

Preparations are under way to stage the first display of Leonardo da Vinci's Leoni binding - the 16th century leather album which for more than 300 ye...

Workers at the National Gallery will stage another strike today in a continuing row over jobs. Members of the Public and Commercial Services union ...

Workers at London's National Gallery, home to the blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci art exhibition, will go on strike today in a row over jobs. As prev...

It’s been one of the biggest art shows in living memory, but this week people will be walking out of Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Mila...

When it comes to our appreciation of art, who cares what we're meant to think? Who cares what the critics or art historians tell us we should feel?

A blockbuster art exhibition? Turner Prize nominees that people actually liked? A masterpiece ruined by a cleaner? It can only be the biggest art sto...

The problem with the word 'genius' isn't only that we sometimes apply it to undeserving people, it's that we tend to use it as an explanation for ...

If anything the commercial success of an exhibition like Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, is evidence of the need for more, not less, funding investment for the Arts.