No more roommates for Mona Lisa! Iconic painting to get own gallery at the Louvre — and Americans will help foot the bill
Art critics hailed news of the move, saying that the precious painting has stolen the spotlight for long enough.
Why Tom Hanks ended up pantless in front of the Mona Lisa: ‘Wait a minute’
Tom Hanks is in a league of his own. The actor had an unusual experience at one of the most famous museums in the world when ...
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People Won’t Stop Demanding The Mona Lisa To Be Cleaned, So Someone Just Explained What Would Happen
In fact, some restoration work was done in 1809 on the original Mona Lisa, and that’s why it looks so ‘washed out’ as some ...
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A timeline of attacks on the Mona Lisa
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 ...
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Imagining the Mona Lisa’s New Room
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history ... room for the Mona Lisa, French President ...
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Decoding the Mona Lisas
It demands vesting new meanings in words such as ‘original’ and ‘second’, a new way of seeing these paintings. You have to see at the ‘Isleworth Mona Lisa’ and not muse ‘mmm ...
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Mona Lisa to Get Her Own Room as the Overcrowded Louvre Expands
“The Louvre will be redesigned and restored to become the epicenter of art history for ... each other to see the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo and often leave rooms full of other masterpieces ...
The 'Mona Lisa' will get its own room under a major renovation of the Louvre
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre needs a full upgrade, and a costly one. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce Tuesday possibly hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in renovation work for ...