A familiar face returns with paintings and statues for sale, but which of Redd's artwork is real and which is fake? Find out ...

An unusual show called the Copyist exhibition invites artists to re-imagine classic art works. Meet an invisible maid, men under a lens, and see other histories rewritten.

On the morning of August 21, 1911, Italian decorator Vincenzo Peruggia pulled off what has been almost universally described ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Louvre Museum began a security audit a decade ago but the recommended upgrades will not be completed until 2032, the state auditor said in a report on Thursday compiled ...

Step aside, all ye Hollywood crime thrillers. The biggest drama of them all played out in real life last month. No chilling ...

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 ...

After eight of the French crown jewels were stolen from the Louvre museum this month, CBC Kids News looks at three other ...

"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 ...

The band of robbers who broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning and stole eight Napoleonic pieces of priceless jewellery in a four-minute heist were just the latest in a long line of ...

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 ...

With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along. By Tim Teeman Call it a Pynchon-palooza! “Shadow ...

The identity of the woman who sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s world renowned painting, The Mona Lisa, is a mystery that researchers have long sought an answer to. Most experts believe the woman depicted ...