In 1919, when Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a “Mona Lisa” postcard, the painting moved beyond high art into popular culture, where it has remained.

This is where Marcel Duchamp came in. He took a monochrome postcard of the Mona Lisa and drew in a moustache and beard. He had been developing the idea that as art could only be defined by its context ...

Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye ...

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 ...

The medieval Ponte Buriano is often said to be the bridge in the Mona Lisa, but a historian is now claiming otherwise. Getty Images/iStockphoto The Mona Lisa is one of the world’s most famous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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