Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism ...

A worker hanging the Mona Lisa When Vincenzo starts work at the Louvre, he is immediately struck by just how many Italian paintings there are. Many of them - as he finds out – were taken from ...

Pascal Cotte via artnet NewsA study 15 years in the making revealed a hidden drawing underneath the Mona Lisa‘s surface. Centuries after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa still has ...

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 ...

Leonardo da Vinci, “La Gioconda / Mona Lisa” (c. 1503 to 1517), oil on poplar panel, 21 inches x 30 inches (image courtesy Dianelos via Wikimedia Commons/edit by Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic ...

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