Could Leonardo da Vinci have drawn a nude version of The Mona Lisa? Art experts say that is entirely possible. This charcoal drawing, titled the Monna Vanna, is now thought to have at least been ...

These images represent four steps in one computer program’s progress towards recreating the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi-transparent polygons. Swedish programmer Roger Alsing did this simple weekend ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa continues to fascinate art observers with its compositional secrets. Recently, a scientist by the name of Pascal Cotte discovered a never-before-seen sketch beneath the ...

Over the past month, scientists at the Louvre have been carefully examining a 16th-century charcoal drawing of a nude woman known as “Monna Vanna,” long attributed to the studio of Leonardo da Vinci.

French scientist Pascal Cotte has announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, Mona Lisa, was originally transferred from a cartoon. And while “cartoon” in this context just refers to a preliminary ...