Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology department, delivered the annual Distinguished Faculty ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and Napoleon Bonaparte both fell in love with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, she ...

The world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris was closed on Sunday following a robbery, France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati confirmed. Authorities have not yet disclosed details about what was stolen or ...

"Inimaginable" or 'unimaginable' is how Paris's newspapers reported the theft of the Mona Lisa. Louvre, one of the world's most visited and iconic museums, has a history of being robbed and that too ...

Tourists jostle each other to see and take a photograph of Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.(AP) The Louvre Museum in Paris made headlines again this ...

Leonardo da Vinci, the creator of the famous Mona Lisa, was an Italian painter and sculptor. This raises the question of why ...

Many stolen treasures from the Paris museum have never been recovered. The Sunday theft from the Louvre Museum of eight priceless pieces of jewelry belonging to Emperor Napoleon and his wife has ...

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects. People gather around the Mona Lisa painting in ...

The experts have said that the stolen jewels from the Louvre may never be found Historian Eric Anceau has termed the Louvre jewel heist the most serious and spectacular, even surpassing the theft of ...

As the coronavirus pandemic keeps visitors away, the Louvre is offering time close-up with the "Mona Lisa" and a walk along ...

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Firestone puts it this way: The jewels are “the Louvre’s final word in the language of monarchy — a glittering echo of kings and queens as France crossed into a new era.” They are not ornaments, she ...