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

Impressive though she was at being feisty in Erin Brockovich, psychological complexity does not come easily to her, and her smile (constantly compared within the movie to the Mona Lisa's ...

In Mona Lisa Smile, set in 1953, Julia Roberts plays Katherine Watson, an art-history professor from California who lands a teaching job at Wellesley. From the look of things, she appears to have ...

Most people don't even "look at the Mona Lisa or her smile, they just want a souvenir snap with their back to the picture", while ignoring the room's other "masterpieces by Titian, Tintoretto and ...

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 ...