The Mona Lisa’s tricky smile and timeless allure have inspired academic study and artistic emulation for more than five centuries—but the story of Leonardo da Vinci’s perplexing portrait is ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps the world’s most famous ... Instead, the geologist focused on what she knew best: ...

A geologist claims to have identified the landscape visible in the background of the Mona Lisa, potentially solving one of the painting’s biggest mysteries. The world’s most famous painting ...

Leonardo da Vinci spends 14 years working on the Mona Lisa, the culmination of all his ... Its bones are the strata and structures of the rocks which form the mountains. [Birds chirping ...

Leonardo also showed them a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo ... Its bones are the strata and structures of the rocks which form the mountains. [Birds chirping] ♪ Its blood is its veins of water.

rocks with great attention and an incredibly keen eye, and that knowledge informs his art, but the landscapes of his painting, including the landscape of the Mona Lisa, are his personal imaginary ...

promoted the Mona Lisa as a kind of elemental mother-temptress, madonna-femme fatale, uniting the age old male fantasies and myths of womanhood. "She is older than the rocks among which she sits ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mona Lisa was being slowly injected with a dose ... In it, Pater described her as one of the undead: She is older than the rocks on which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many ...

Mona Lisa's pose was strikingly new ... the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; ...