The decision to isolate the Mona Lisa in a dedicated room at the Louvre is a response to a need for crowd management, but it ...

Her image is everywhere from T-shirts to coffee mugs, but it was only recently that the true identity of the woman in the ...

It may be that a restored copy of the Mona Lisa, recently unveiled at the Museo ... painting next to Leonardo at the same time that the Renaissance master painted the portrait which now hangs ...

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 ...

The researcher said the "Mona Lisa's" smile was originally slightly ... and is said to have worked on it up until his death. The Renaissance artist once said, "Art is never finished, only abandoned." ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century Florence, Italy. The work is hailed as an artistic masterpiece for its ...

The Mona Lisa is probably the most celebrated artwork ever made, visited by millions of tourists every year, constantly re-invented by film-makers, meme-makers and advertisers. But for art ...