A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...
Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa on Monday 21st August, 1911. The Louvre is closed for cleaning and there are just 12 security guards on duty rather than the normal 116. He enters the museum ...
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 ...
An Italian official has called for France’s Louvre Museum to temporarily return the Mona Lisa as the museum faces concerns of ...
Francesca Caruso, the regional assessor for culture in Italy’s Lombardy region, first suggested the possibility of bringing the painting back to Milan for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
If you have visited the Louvre Museum, you must have been amazed by the world's most iconic painting, the Mona Lisa, housed there. Its enigmatic smile and captivating gaze have made it one of ...