Published in the print edition of the January 13, 2025, issue, with the headline “When Picasso Was Arrested for Stealing the ‘Mona Lisa’.” ...

If you’ve ever visited the Louvre in Paris and seen the Mona Lisa, you may well have been underwhelmed. Not because the painting itself isn’t beautiful, but because viewing it these days ...

Picasso's is known for its local take on artsy-named gourmet sandwiches, such as The Mona Lisa, which includes turkey, artichoke hearts, baby spinach, tomato, pesto and Havarti cheese on ...

Sandwich shop owners are keeping it simple, mixing vanilla ice cream with one of eight sweet breakfast cereals.

Talking of such passions, Picasso painted his elegant wife Olga as poised and respectable in a Spanish dress, but when he grows tired of playing respectable husband and doting father, his images ...

This Wednesday, amid huge fanfare, the Mona Lisa is to be unveiled in her new home in the Louvre. John Lichfield asks what makes this painting the most visited, most written about, most sung about ...

The Louvre in Paris may have the Mona Lisa. But fighting a crowd to catch a glimpse of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is far less appealing than the experience you can get for free at the ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its legend to a brazen Italian thief who stole it from the Louvre and vanished ...