The Mona Lisa’s real rise to stardom began with a crime. On a summer morning in 1911, the painting vanished from the Louvre.

Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact ...

Forget everything you know about the most famous painting in the world: Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503–17). According to French scientist Pascal Cotte, who has analyzed the painting with ...

PARIS, France — The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the ...

Mona Lisa's famous smile might not have been genuine when she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago. Scientists wanted to investigate Lisa Gherardini's facial expression and apply ...

One museum heist, or perhaps the publicity surrounding it, is credited with making a priceless masterpiece of a painting that had been celebrated by aficionados but virtually unknown to the public: ...

Protected in a bullet-proof glass vitrine and behind a barrier, the Mona Lisa is never going to look its best. But come the fall, visitors to Louvre will be able to get up close and intimately ...

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MADRID — Spain’s Prado Museum said Wednesday it has a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” that one of his students painted in the studio where the masterpiece was completed. A museum spokeswoman ...

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