"When I came to Lecco. I realized he had painted the Mona Lisa here." For centuries, art historians have been trying to ...

Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism ...

The Mona Lisa with guards in 1914 “If they had,” says Iain, “they would have found the painting in the wardrobe!” This remarkable oversight has been explained by a classist thought process ...

It's the most famous painting in the world. Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard about the time the Mona Lisa actually vanished from the Louvre in Paris for ...

Mona Lisa is moving out of shared digs and into ... Moving the precious oil painting, dating back to the early 16th century, is one small part of a reportedly long-overdue renovation expected ...

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

Following World War II, the Mona Lisa has almost been perpetually kept in the celebrated Louvre museum. Only in 1963, was the painting taken to the United States, and in 1974 to Japan and the ...