mona lisa's smile was not genuine when leonardo da vinci painted her, scientists say In 1974, the Mona Lisa hit the road. While at the Tokyo National Museum, a woman sprayed the top of Mona Lisa ...

Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre in Paris, France. Shutterstock Salai became part of da Vinci’s team when he was very young, just 10 years old, and worked with him for more than two ...

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 ...

Kept hidden for decades in a Swiss vault, the so-called “Isleworth Mona Lisa” is at the center of a mysterious ownership dispute.

Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" painting may be part of the oldest 3D artwork, say two visual scientists. In 2012, scientists discovered that beneath layers of black paint, a seemingly ...

Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting may be part of the oldest 3D artwork, say two visual scientists, who looked at the original version and one painted possibly alongside it, called the Prado ...

Scientists have discovered a new secret in Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa. AP “In this case, it’s interesting to see that indeed there is a specific technique for the ground layer of ...

Leonardo da Vinci painted a younger and happier Mona Lisa some 10 years before painting the famous painting, art experts are claiming. Slightly larger in size than the famous portrait,‭ ‬which ...

Centuries after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa still has secrets to reveal. Most recently, a high-tech study of the painting found a hidden drawing beneath the paint.

A new study found a rare compound called plumbonacrite within the “Mona Lisa,” suggesting Leonardo da Vinci may have been the first to use a technique previously found in later paintings.

What's staggering about this painting — which experts believe da Vinci painted around 1500 when he was 48 and roughly when he also was working on the Mona Lisa — is that for centuries it vanished.