How did spies, curators, and an army of art handlers save some of the world's most important artwork? An excerpt from the new ...

The Musée du Louvre, generally just referred to as “The Louvre,” is the most famous and most visited museum in the entire ...

Iconic places and moments immortalized in photographs often remain that way in our memories. When we think of The Mona Lisa ...

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

During World War II, Jacques Jaujard orchestrated a secret mission. His aim was to safeguard France's art. He moved the Mona Lisa and other treasures ...

Never has a piece of art attracted more interest than a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci ...

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

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

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

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 ...