The Mona Lisa’s real rise to stardom began with a crime. On a summer morning in 1911, the painting vanished from the Louvre.
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, ...
The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and ...
Art historians have insisted there was no way to improve on Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece the Mona Lisa. Then came “Is It Cake, Too?" In Season 2 of Netflix’s baking competition (now streaming), in ...
Seen one way, at risk of over-exercising the cliche we have of the French as world-class gourmets, the January 28 "soup attack" on the Mona Lisa was the most purely "French" of the long-suffering ...
Ah, Paris - the city of lights, love, and apparently, low-effort museum break-ins. In a dazzling display of what can only be described as “Ocean’s 11 meets Home Depot,” a gang of thieves robbed the ...
At this time of year, tourists choke the corridors of the Louvre leading to the gallery where Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting hangs behind bulletproof glass. To be in the crowd thronging to ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Mona Lisa probably wasn't a man, and it's even more unlikely that the artist who painted the famous painting used himself as the model. So conclude University of Illinois ...
A 15th-century Bible which is considered one of the most spectacular examples of Renaissance illuminated manuscripts went on display in Rome on Thursday ...