No more roommates for Mona Lisa! Iconic painting to get own gallery at the Louvre — and Americans will help foot the bill
Art critics hailed news of the move, saying that the precious painting has stolen the spotlight for long enough.
France plans $800 million makeover for the Louvre, Mona Lisa's overcrowded home
Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.
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Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out
If the other paintings in the room that houses the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris could talk, they might be ...
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‘Mona Lisa’ will get its own room following renovation
The renovation will include constructing a dedicated room for the famed "Mona Lisa." The upgrades are expected to be finished by 2031. PARIS - France announced that the famed "Mona Lisa" will have ...
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Mona Lisa to get a room of her own in Louvre museum renovation
As part of an ambitious overhaul of the Louvre in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa will be installed in a special exhibition space — hopefully alleviating the crush of ...
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Eight things we learned about the theft of the Mona Lisa
However, the Mona Lisa (real name ‘La Gioconda’ because the subject is thought to be Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo) was actually bought by the French king Francis I from Leonardo da Vinci.