Getty Images The Mona Lisa, known as La Gioconda by Italians and La Joconde by the French, is thought to be a depiction of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant in Florence.

All except Number 779, known in France as La Joconde, in Italy as La Gioconda and everywhere else as the Mona Lisa. This is, allegedly, the portrait of a Florentine lady, Lisa Gherardini, the wife of ...

Where the face of the Mona Lisa once peered inscrutably at visitors, a worker scribbled her French name: La Joconde. He smudged out his first try and rewrote it more neatly just above, perhaps in ...

This photograph shows the painting "La Joconde" (the Mona Lisa) by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci at the Louvre museum in Paris, Jan. 28, 2025. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images The painting's ...

The Mona Lisa painting was attacked by two environmental ... ALERTE - Des militantes pour le climat jettent de la soupe sur le tableau de La Joconde au musée du Louvre. @CLPRESSFR pic.twitter.com ...

La Joconde – as the Mona Lisa is known in France – was bought by King Francis I of France just before Italian Leonardo da Vinci’s death in 1519. It became famous around the world in 1911 ...

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 ...

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 ...