For centuries, critics and observers alike have argued over if Mona Lisa is smiling. Do we now have an answer?

And finally, there is the Mona Lisa’s most mystical and engaging element of all ... your retina catches these tiny details and delineations, making her appear not to be smiling. But if you move your ...

Today, when you stand in front of the Mona Lisa—dodging camera phones and trying to figure out if she’s smiling at you or someone behind you—you’re not just looking at a painting.

Yet many of those standing before the Mona Lisa are left disconcerted. By 20th-century conventions, she is neither beautiful, nor sexy. The painting is not grandiose or politically inspiring. It does ...

Our regular look at some of the faces which have made the news this week. Above are MONA LISA (main picture), with BILL CLINTON, VICTORIA COREN, ROSELANE DRIZA and LORD LINLEY . Theories about what ...

In the early 1990s, art professor Frank Zöllner examined the Mona Lisa without its frame and concluded that it had not been trimmed [PDF]. Leonardo painted the portrait on wood, not canvas ...

But it turns out that the brilliant sequel didn't always end with Helen smiling like the Mona Lisa while the Glass Onion ... a little coda which we decided not to use, with Blanc on the ...

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret ... art and curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who was not involved in the study, called the research "very exciting" and said any ...

One of the most visited artworks in the world, Berenson’s pronouncement of the enigmatically smiling ... the myth of the Mona Lisa emerged, I believe that her fame is due not just to the ...