From here it passed to the Louvre. The Mona Lisa’s present life as the most egregiously pirated painting in history did not, however, begin until August 1911, when it was stolen by Vincenzo ...

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 ...

More than a century ago, the Mona Lisa was stolen from its famed Paris museum, Louvre, and recovered shortly after. Many ...

I know that I've certainly gained a deeper understanding of why the Mona Lisa still remains one of the most important ...

After a prominent archaeologist said he would launch a campaign to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy ... we need to get the ...

Even centuries later, although avant-garde artists like Duchamp and Dali ridiculed her image, they were paying homage to the Mona Lisa as one of the most influential paintings in art history.

Villa Mona Lisa, a 15-bedroom private villa on 67 acres of Tuscan vineyards, was the family home of Lisa Gherardini aka Mona ...

Mona Lisa has been displayed in the Salle des États ... Yes, but only a handful of times in recent history. The painting last left France in 1974, when it was loaned to Russia and to Japan.

The Paris museum should forget about the hugely costly move of the Leonardo painting and focus instead on the myriad other ...

Throughout history, art has been a reflection of society, culture, and the human experience. Famous painters, through their ...

In Mona Lisa Smile, set in 1953, Julia Roberts plays Katherine Watson, an art-history professor from California who lands a teaching job at Wellesley. From the look of things, she appears to have ...