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 ...

While Leonardo occasionally painted on canvas, the “general rule” is that his “mature oil paintings, including the Louvre’s Mona Lisa, were executed on wood,” wrote BBC Culture.

Mona Lisa has been displayed in the ... the workers do a trial run with a piece of wood that is roughly the same size and shape as the painting. When moving a painting within a museum, Ms Pearson ...

Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism ...

The disputed painted hanging in the London flat of art dealer Henry Pulitzer in the 1960s A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not ...

The Mona Lisa with guards in 1914 “If they had,” says Iain, “they would have found the painting in the wardrobe!” This remarkable oversight has been explained by a classist thought process ...

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Artist Adebanji Alade, is unlocking the secrets of the world's most iconic painting by taking on the challenge of creating a gallery-worthy ...

This seemed low, because it is among the finest peasant “heads” which the artist painted when he was living ... for the picture it dubbed “the Mona Lisa of Brabant”. Among the major ...

The GTO is basically like the Mona Lisa of cars. Between 1962 and 1964 ... It's the only 250 GTO that was painted lime green. Baron Irvine Laidlaw is a Scottish businessman who has a net worth ...

Visitors observe the painting The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci on display in a gallery at Louvre (Getty Images) In an interview with Le Figaro, she said: "My position is very clear - I want ...