A painting that was sold for £45 was later found to be by Da Vinci and is now worth £120 million.
A prehistoric painting in West Texas is getting the laser treatment for study and preservation purposes.
Historian Carla Glori may have identified the location shown in Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting.
The world's hottest chili pepper, the Naga Viper, is so potent that it is hot enough to strip paint.
The remains of the woman who Leonardo painted as the Mona Lisa may have been found 30 years ago.
Scientists are examining the different layers of paint used by Da Vinci in order to try and crack the Mona Lisa's smile.
A painter and decorator was thrown in to jail after he was mistaken by police for a brutal war criminal.
The first convincing evidence for neanderthal "body paint" has been discovered dating back some 50,000 years.
A French art expert who has analysed Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting the Mona Lisa using a 240 megapixel camera has ...
A team of animators have created an exhibit of animated masterpieces at Beijing's Planning Exhibition Hall. Paintings su...
Through the use of a new sensitive scanning device that allows a painting's past to be revealed it has been discovered t...