Inventor: Scans reveal Mona Lisa secrets
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For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes.
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FLORENCE, Italy  - After 32 years on the trail of Leonardo da Vinci's lost masterpiece "The Battle of Anghiari", Maurizio Seracini thinks he is on the verge of solving one of the art world's greatest mysteries.
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Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.
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p2pnet.net News:- Software to help authenticate paintings, prints and drawings has been developed by researchers at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in the US.
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Is his mysterious three-wheeled cart a proto automobile? A remote-controlled robot? A rolling Renaissance computer? Follow the quest to rebuild Leonardo's 'impossible machine.' By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine.
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An art restorer says he has solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
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Leonardo Da Vinciâs masterpiece joins a large and growing population of virtual art.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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Digital images that are billions of pixels in size are now becoming commonplace.
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Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie villain creeping through a dark gallery &#151; or last year's bold daylight robbery of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from a Norway museum. Most art heists, however, are far more subtle, involving forged documents, fake prints or smuggled cultural artifacts that slowly make their way into the hands of private owners or museums.
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Scientists in Manchester develop new technology to "print out" human skin and bones.
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A forgotten workshop of Leonardo da Vinci,  complete with 500-year-old frescos and a secret room to dissect  human cadavers, has been discovered in Florence, Italy,  researchers said on Tuesday.
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Nearly 150 years ago it was no more than  a concept by a visionary scientist, but researchers have now  created a minuscule motor that could lead to the creation of  microscopic nanomachines.
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Recovering 736 missing digital images can be arduous -- and expensive. Here's the right (and wrong) way to do it.
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It's a historian's equivalent of stumbling across a long-lost sonata - a fingerprint on an 18th-century letter that experts say may have been left by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father.
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece.
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Rembrandt, the 17th-century Dutch master  known for his skill in using light to carry perspective, may  have been wall-eyed, a U.S. researcher proposed on Wednesday.