Leonardo da Vinci was a painter ... a team of scientists in France and Britain has detected a rare mineral compound within the iconic piece. The finding provides fresh insight into how the ...

“If they’d have been able to do that with a small, 400 or 500 Da compound, of course they would have done it,” Kihlberg says. Merck’s Hartung points to the red-hot field of targeted ...

A rare chemical compound called plumbonacrite has been found on the underpainting of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which sheds light on his processes, according to new research. The presence of ...

Scientists used advanced techniques to analyze the Mona Lisa and discovered a rare mineral compound called 'plumbonacrite' in its layers. Da Vinci's innovative approach involved using ...