One critic referred to the Mona Lisa as the “Kim Kardashian of 16th-century Italian portraiture,” in a New York Times op-ed pleading for the painting to receive its own space.

Mona Lisa to get its own room? Crowd of tourists with their phones in hand, taking photos of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, France on June 7, 2024.

Last year, 8.7 million people visited the Louvre, most of them standing in long, noisy lines to catch a brief glimpse of — and likely a selfie with — Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile behind her ...

PARIS, France — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the ...

January 28, 2025 The ‘Mona Lisa’ Is Getting Its Own Private Room at the Louvre The French president announced a few changes coming to the world's largest museum, in a bid to prevent overcrowding.

With the Louvre museum in Paris cracking at the seams under the pressure of welcoming around nine million visitors per year, among a vast and costly restructuring plan is the idea of placing the ...

The Mona Lisa has been a resident of the Louvre Museum in Paris for centuries, but there is a new push by some in Italy for the world-famous painting to be moved to Milan ahead of the 2026 Winter ...

More than one artist did him the honor of drawing a mustache and goatee onto Duchamp's image, just as he had tweaked the "Mona Lisa." The exhibit, developed over five years, is essentially the first ...