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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.
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 Picasso estate has contacted Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art to express its regret about artist Kirsha Kaechele's faked Picasso artworks, but said it considers the matter to be now closed.
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 ...
Mona Lisa's roommates at the Louvre may be glad she's moving out Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the ...