A historic art exhibition, the start of a revolutionary political movement, and the birth of one of the greatest scientific minds.
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 ...
Since the Mona Lisa is possibly the world's most famous painting, and its painter is regarded as one of history's greatest artists, such a find would turn the art world upside down. The foundation ...
After a prominent archaeologist said he would launch a campaign to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy ... we need to get the history right," Kemp wrote. His op-ed was a response to news from ...
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 ...
Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard about the time the Mona Lisa actually vanished from the Louvre in Paris for nearly two and a half years.
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 ...
The artwork, displayed on social media platform X, shows the Mona Lisa in a dress with a dupatta draped over her forehead, wearing Indian jewelry, including a maang tikka, earrings, and a ...
When he felt a 3-D rendering of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” he says he noticed her smile right away: “I could literally feel what you see when you look at it.” For Luc this means ...
After a savage bidding war over Rizal’s Josephine Sleeping, the National Museum of the Philippines put its own jaw-dropping epilogue to the historic Kingly Treasures auction of León Gallery held last ...