Experts say jewels stolen in heists from the iconic Parisian museum are hard to recover, as they are broken down.

On Tuesday August 22, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Musée du Louvre under everyone's noses. In the early hours of ...

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso ...

One of the most famous art heists in history was the 1911 theft of the "Mona Lisa." The 16th-century Leonardo da Vinci ...

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

It's the most famous painting in the world, but could the Mona Lisa have been hiding a disease in plain sight? Dr. Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women's Hospital says it's his opinion that Lisa ...

It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an Italian mason named Vincenzo Peruggia carried out the most astounding art heist ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Mona Lisa probably wasn't a man, and it's even more unlikely that the artist who painted the famous painting used himself as the model. So conclude University of Illinois ...

Italian art historian Silvano Vinceti's journey to identify the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" has now wound its way to a graveyard. Yes: Vinceti has literally decided to unearth ...