The Bible was commissioned by Borso D’Este, who became duke of Ferrara in northeastern Italy in the mid-1400s. Borso enlisted ...

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 ...

Now she’s really got something to smile about. Mona Lisa is moving out of shared digs and into her own “special space” at the ...

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 ...

A French scientist has claimed that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the world's most recognised painting, conceals another portrait beneath it – of an entirely different woman. Pascal Cotte, who has ...

Explore how the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in Paris for over two years. It's the most famous painting in the world. Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard ...

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 ...

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 techniques that ...

Yes, you read that headline correctly. A man dressed up as an elderly woman in a wheelchair threw cake at Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa painting at the Louvre on Sunday. Witnesses described on social ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s historic painting of Mona Lisa is arguably one of the most famous works of art in the world, and makeup artist Liza Kondrevich just gave it an eclectic update that has people ...

THIS is the shocking moment two pranksters successfully sneak a painting into the Louvre and hang it in the same room as the ...