13 years after the Louvre announced it was teaming up with Nintendo to create an audio tour of the world-renowned Parisian ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

FIND out if you have perfect vision by spotting the difference in the two semi-identical images from famous paintings. A few subtle differences can be found in the images below, but only the ...

For the Louvre, history ended in 1848—later masterpieces are in France’s other national museums—but its transformation ...

Retired New York Times Paris Bureau Chief Elaine Sciolino returns to Buffalo, where she was raised, to talk about her book ...

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest Renaissance painters, was a perfectionist who spent many years going over the same ...

He pledged that the Louvre will then welcome up to 12 million visitors annually—30% more than today. In the meantime, he promised the Mona Lisa a “more peaceful environment”. Behind him ...

The Uffizi balcony reveals more architectural masterpieces with views of Giotto's bell tower and the imposing Duomo. And that ...

The Louvre Museum has confirmed that it will replace its New Nintendo 3DS audio guides with "a new system" later this year.

Visitors may soon come across the Mona Lisa while rifling through the racks ... the retail giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and the Musée du Louvre have launched Louvre au centre, a touring ...

When the painter died three years later, the Mona Lisa was passed onto Da Vinci's apprentice and then sold to the French King before it eventually wound up at the Louvre. The portrait was put on ...