The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and ...

Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a massive renovation of the Louvre in Paris -- including a separate gallery for the museum's most famous holding, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. POOL/AFP via ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and Napoleon Bonaparte both fell in love with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, she ...

It is one of the most tantalising – and entertaining – puzzles in art, stretching from the Louvre to the Loire via, well, Norfolk. And our critic thinks he has just worked it out ...

The greatest paintings usually magnify the beauty and morals of the civilizations that produced them, inspiring countless other artists, writers and satirists for centuries to come. Artists such as ...

Explore how the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in Paris for over two years. It's the most famous painting in the world. Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Visitors to the Louvre in Paris should have a clearer view of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" after the museum installed a new, more transparent form of bullet-proof glass to protect ...

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

No other painting is surrounded by as many myths and hypotheses as the famous Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. More than 500 years after the iconic oil painting was created, a researcher says she has ...

The Mona Lisa painting was created by Leonardo da Vinci, the legendary artist and scientist from the Renaissance period. The woman depicted in the painting is believed to be Lisa Gherardini, the wife ...

Visitors to the Louvre will be forced to traipse through a “Mona Lisa journey” covering a vast 32,000 square foot reception area to get a glimpse of the painting, the museum’s director has announced.