Zauzmer said the "Mona Lisa" took the longest because she "felt a real responsibility to get it right, since it is perhaps the most famous painting of all time." ...

The painting of Mona Lisa on display at Louvre Museum, Paris. Louvre Museum Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. Sitting behind bullet-proof glass at the Musée ...

The plot to steal the Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century Florence, Italy.

The mysterious smile of Leonardo da Vinci ‘s Mona Lisa has captivated viewers for generations, but the true identity of the Renaissance artist’s most famous subject has eluded art historians ...

Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, an academic believes she has unravelled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world's most famous works of art.

In a document discovered in 2005 at Heidelberg University in Germany, Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote that "Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of ...

The museum houses famous artworks like Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo. The Pyramid entrance became a symbol of frustration. The museum might reopen on Wednesday.

The intriguing smile of the Mona Lisa was the result of very high levels of cholesterol, according to a medical expert who has studied famous figures in Renaissance art.