But who was the Mona Lisa, and why has her portrait garnered such fame and intrigue? This article explores the identity of the woman in the painting, the historical context of its creation ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its ...

The Mona Lisa painting may be moved to an underground ... Leonardo da Vinci’s famed portrait of an enigmatically almost-smiling woman is the main attraction of the Louvre, helping it to be ...

Harriss traverses this landscape with an eye for the amusing and the arcane, covering high points in the portrait's celebrity ... to captivate us. The Mona Lisa, says art historian Roy McMullen ...

In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo ... on the form that he is reproducing. The Mona Lisa is much more than just a painting, it's a cultural icon.

But instead of using oil paint, like da Vinci used for his portrait ... as beautiful as da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, almost everyone I showed it to knew what the painting was supposed to be ...

Two women threw pumpkin soup at the 'Mona ... Lisa" was reopened at about 11:30 a.m. Climate protesters at the Louvre in Paris hurled pumpkin soup at the "Mona Lisa" on Sunday, but the painting ...

Two German bloggers brought printed portraits of US President Donald Trump and future German Chancellor and CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz to the Louvre and hung them next to a Titian painting. The ...

In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...