The subtle smile of the “Mona Lisa” has enchanted the art world for more than 500 years. But does it belong to an entirely different woman? French scientist Pascal Cotte says he has revealed three ...

PARIS, Dec. 8 (UPI) --A French scientist who has examined the Mona Lisa for more than a decade says a reflective light analysis technique has allowed him to see beneath the painting, where he's found ...

A French scientist has claimed that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the world's most recognised painting, conceals another portrait beneath it – of an entirely different woman. Pascal Cotte, who has ...

GENEVA — The mystery behind the most enigmatic smile in art — Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” — just got a little more complicated. In a coming-out party of sorts in Geneva, rounds of flashbulbs ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and ...

Forget everything you know about the most famous painting in the world: Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503–17). According to French scientist Pascal Cotte, who has analyzed the painting with ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, is irrefutably the most famous painting in existence, and with fame often comes controversy, suspicion, conspiracy. That’s why French scientist Pascal Cotte has been ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

Perhaps the most famous painting in history, Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is also among the most closely scrutinized — and one scientist has capped a decade of study with the claim (PDF) that ...

This video will surely paint a smile on your face. This video of a father surprising his 9-year-old daughter with a portrait of her as the Mona Lisa will surely paint a smile on your face, but it’s ...