After Leonardo da Vinci’s death in 1519, the Mona Lisa entered the French royal collection and passed through the hands of several rulers, including King Francis I and later Louis XIV. The painting ...

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A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

The greatest paintings usually magnify the beauty and morals of the civilizations that produced them, inspiring countless other artists, writers and satirists for centuries to come. Artists such as ...

Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca. 1503–08). Who was the sitter? What does her smile mean? Is the ...

Dive into the world of artistic mastery with LEGO as they debut their latest LEGO Art set featuring a buildable Mona Lisa! That is right; it is time to become the one and only Leonardo da Vinci as ...

Just a few days after French newspaper Le Parisien leaked a memo in which Louvre director Laurence des Cars expressed extreme concern for and dissatisfaction with the museum’s dilapidated state and ...

The Mona Lisa was not famous until it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911. The theft and extensive media coverage turned the painting into a global icon. This event demonstrates how attention, not just ...

When Winnie Wong first saw Dafen Oil Painting Village in 2006, it was nothing like she’d imagined. Then a graduate student in art history at MIT, Wong had read about the Chinese village in The New ...

Visitors will be able to view Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece without touring the rest of the Louvre, and visitor traffic at the museum will be able to grow by three million people annually ...

The Mona Lisa’s smile may have masked a slew of health issues, an expert has claimed. Leonardo da Vinci’s best-known painting ...