Two teenage cousins who died at the hands of a drunken sex predator have now suffered a final, devastating betrayal 38 years ...
Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism ...
Few works of art have captured the imagination as much as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The mystery and allure of her portrait reaches far beyond her modest 30-inch x 20-inch frame. She’s the ...
Mona Lisa has been displayed in the Salle des États ... Yes, but only a handful of times in recent history. The painting last left France in 1974, when it was loaned to Russia and to Japan.
A worker hanging the Mona Lisa When Vincenzo starts work at the Louvre, he is immediately struck by just how many Italian paintings there are. Many of them - as he finds out – were taken from ...
Described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world," we are all familiar with the Mona Lisa. However ...
Up to 10 million people a year visit the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre, crowding into the Paris gallery where "she gazes out from behind 3in of bulletproof glass", said The Times. Many visitors queue ...
Leonardo da Vinci feud: The 'earlier' Mona Lisa mystery Louvre reunited with stolen 16th-Century armour "This work and its history illustrate the fascination that the Mona Lisa and the aura of ...
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you ... home of the Temple – will have serious ramifications for all of Jewish history. This is not a “whodunit” but rather a “will he do it?” ...