This leads to a fierce cultural dispute between Italy and France. More on this at TRAVELBOOK. Of course, one might ask this ...

Now she’s really got something to smile about. Mona Lisa is moving out of shared digs and into her own “special space” at the Louvre, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday — with ...

The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

Before 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was admired by artists - but hardly known by the public. Then a humble Italian ...

The Mona Lisa is famed for two things: her enigmatic smile and her steady gaze, widely believed to follow her viewers around the room. Indeed, Leonardo da Vinci’s world-renowned painting, also known ...

It's challenging to imagine a time when the Mona Lisa wasn't a household name. The portrait is now iconic — and parodied. She's been depicted in Legos, driving a convertible, as Princess Leia. But ...

Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact ...

The medieval Ponte Buriano is often said to be the bridge in the Mona Lisa, but a historian is now claiming otherwise. Getty Images/iStockphoto The Mona Lisa is one of the world’s most famous ...

FILE - Journalists walk past Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa during a visit of the Louvre museum Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the ...

Leonardo da Vinci started the iconic 'Mona Lisa' painting in Italy but finished it in France, where he sold it to the French King, François I.