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

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda ... No-one suspected the masterpiece would be lying inside a sparsely furnished, one-room apartment on the rue Hopital Saint-Louis.

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

Being a desirable woman isn’t about being perfect — it’s about the little things you do daily that reflect kindness, ...

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 ...

Huge cheers from the crowd as the white smoke rises, everyone is running forward to see it. People are jumping up and down ...

Neumark has storage in Tel Aviv, Berlin and London. “My plan is to open my own museum in Israel” he concluded, “this is the ...

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

What is protest, if not the trembling murmur of a society’s conscience? Across centuries and continents, protest has not only challenged power but also painted, composed, sculpted, whispered, and ...

A higher entrance fee for non-EU visitors, a dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, and a grand new entrance... These are some of the plans presented by French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to ...

But for art historian James Fox, the Mona Lisa is not the greatest painting in the world, nor the greatest painting in the Louvre. For James, it's not even the greatest painting in the room.