French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre ...

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.

Two protesters on Sunday hurled pumpkin soup at the bulletproof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, demanding the right to “healthy and sustainable food”.

To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it is the City of Love. But to art lovers, it is simply the city of art – and there is so much to see that it is hard to know where to start.

Alan Yentob tells the story of the most famous work of art in the world - the Mona Lisa. He discovers who she is, and why she is smiling. Show more She has her own bodyguards and lives in Paris in ...