The “Mona Lisa” has for centuries mystified those ... Even with this breakthrough, Gonzalez says there are more hidden secrets in Leonardo’s works to be found. “We are barely scratching ...

Painted by Leonardo da Vinci sometime between 1503 and 1519, the Mona Lisa is on display at the Louvre. Marc Piasecki / Getty Images From her perch behind protective glass at the Louvre ...

But the "Mona Lisa" - said by the Louvre to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant - and other works by Leonardo still have other secrets to tell. "There are ...

The smile on the face of the Mona Lisa is so enigmatic that it disappears when it is looked at directly, says a US scientist. Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University said the smile only ...

Scientists are due to unveil some of the secrets behind Western art's most ... three-dimensional scan ever undertaken on the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century masterpiece, perhaps ...

Recently, x ray and infrared microanalyses of the Mona Lisa’s ground layer revealed the presence of an unexpected, inorganic mineral compound. How was it formed and what does this tell us about ...

If you have visited the Louvre Museum, you must have been amazed by the world's most iconic painting, the Mona Lisa, housed there. Its enigmatic smile and captivating gaze have made it one of ...

The wood and smile of the Mona Lisa fascinate scientists. Not wooden smile. Wood and smile. A new study in the Journal of Cultural Heritage reveals how researchers have spent 18 years exploring ...

But the “Mona Lisa” — said by the Louvre to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant — and other works by Leonardo still have other secrets to tell.