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 ...

If that isn’t bad enough, the job itself was ... Two years after stealing it, Vincenzo returns the Mona Lisa to Florence. In the intervening time the painting stayed in his wardrobe in Paris ...

When Tom Hanks found himself with his pants down in front of the iconic Mona Lisa painting while filming The Da Vinci Code, director Ron Howard couldn’t help but laugh. Howard, 70, recalled the ...

Among these: the relocation of its most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. The Louvre is in a bad way. This is the alarming message sent by Laurence des Cars, the museum's president and director ...

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 ...

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Up to 10 million people a year visit the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre ... of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up The painting's present room – the Salle des États – is ...

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.