For centuries, the Mona Lisa has mesmerized viewers with her mysterious smile, captivating the imaginations of art lovers, historians, and scholars alike. Now, through the use of advanced X-ray ...

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 ...

Mona Lisa's famous smile might not have been genuine when she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago. Scientists wanted to investigate Lisa Gherardini's facial expression and apply ...

A new analysis of a tiny fragment from the base layer of one of the world’s most recognizable works of art, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” is shedding new light on the work of the Italian ...

Samples taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic paintings Mona Lisa and the Last Supper suggest the renowned Renaissance artist played around with chemicals, causing a rare toxic compound to form in his ...

A French scientist has claimed that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the world's most recognised painting, conceals another portrait beneath it – of an entirely different woman. Pascal Cotte, who has ...

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

One hundred years ago, a heist by a worker at the Louvre secured Leonardo’s painting as an art world icon James Zug After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

Peruggia held onto the Mona Lisa for about two years, hiding it in a trunk in his apartment, before he tried to sell it to an art dealer in Florence. The dealer notified the director of the Uffizi ...

Fans brought a special piece of art to WWE SmackDown in Bologna. As part of WWE’s European tour, the March 21st episode of WWE SmackDown is being held at Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy. Ahead of the ...

After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown here is the transfer of the painting from the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction to France. Bettmann / Corbis ...