Located in a secluded convent outside of Florence, the 600-year-old artwork was concealed behind layers of paint for most of ...

Before the invention of linear perspective, paintings looked a bit strange. If you wanted somebody to look like they were behind someone else, you sort of painted them on top of somebody else.

♪ Verdon: Part of Leonardo's heritage was the revolutionary invention of single-point linear perspective, so a young man learning art in Florence in the 1460s, as Leonardo would have done, he ...