The Mona Lisa was attacked by a cake-throwing eco-warrior in a bizarre stunt that thankfully failed to damage her famous smile. Videos posted on social media appear to show a young man in a wig ...

The “Mona Lisa,” a 16th-century portrait by Leonardo da Vinci—and arguably the most famous painting on earth—was the target of a pastry attack Sunday in a stunt by a climate change ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing c.mayer@newsweek.com An art vandal has spoken out after defacing the priceless portrait of Mona Lisa by smearing cake across her face at the Louvre museum ...

This week, French president Emmanuel Macron announced plans for the iconic Mona Lisa to get its own dedicated room inside a renovated the Louvre museum. The artwork is visited by nearly nine ...

The protester – a young man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair – attacked the glass and attempted to smash it on Sunday. One witness tweeted that the man proceeded to "smear cake on the ...

If the other paintings in the room that houses the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris could talk, they might be whispering "good riddance!" to one another right now. That's owing to French ...

Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who ...

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 ...

Art historians have insisted there was no way to improve on Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece the Mona Lisa. Then came “Is It Cake, Too?" In Season 2 of Netflix’s baking competition (now ...

"Rare photograph of Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci taken in Florence in 1504 on Antiques Roadshow. Very cool," an X post claimed on Nov. 18, 2023. It had over 390,000 views. "Leonardo da Vinci ...

An earlier copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is currently hanging in a gallery in Turin—or so insists Joël Feldman. Feldman is the general secretary of the Swiss Mona Lisa Foundation ...