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 ...

I mean, this is my Louvre. It’s not at all the Louvre of the Mona Lisa or the Salle des États, where she resides. It’s just a beautiful place.” To fall in love with the Louvre—even after ...

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

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

This matches the appearance of the Earlier Mona Lisa, which has an incomplete background, unlike the famous portrait that hangs in the Louvre. Professor Isbouts also points out that historical ...

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 ...

If you're proper A-list, the Louvre is the only place to hang. Just ask the Mona Lisa. Art's greatest celebrity is also its ...

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 ...