Certainly one of the most identifiable images in the world, the original panel version of the Mona Lisa entered the royal collection of François I, in France, shortly after 1517. Several copies were ...

Hekking said he was in possession of the true "Mona Lisa," according to the auction house. He said a look-alike was returned to the Louvre Museum after the real painting was stolen in 1914.

France's President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech in front of the Mona Lisa by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci at the Louvre Museum in Paris on January 28, 2025. Photo: Bertrand Guay/Pool/AFP via ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark ...

Now she’s really got something to smile about. Mona Lisa is moving out of shared digs and into her own “special space” at the Louvre, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday ...

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

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 ...

The search for the Mona Lisa bridge 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 ...

Compagnon was present at the museum for Macron's speech Tuesday. He said he's glad Mona Lisa is being given a dedicated space. "It will free the Salle des Etats," he said.

Thus the Mona Lisa has become a lightning rod for attacks — including a two-year hiatus when it was stolen from the Louvre by a disgruntled Italian emigre in Paris, Vincente Perugia, who tried ...