Since the Mona Lisa is possibly the world's most famous painting, and its painter is ... probably never handed the portrait over to his original client, and a second person "might well have ...

She is his Ideal. "Raymond Hekking was her staunch defender among art historians and the world's media." The original Mona Lisa is possibly the world's most famous painting, and Italian ...

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 ...

True to form, the Fourth Doctor has an equally ingenious plan to stop Scaroth: he travels back in time and writes “THIS IS A ...

Restoration efforts over the centuries have struggled to preserve its original ... modern art history. Girl with a Pearl ...

Protesters have thrown soup at the glass-protected Mona Lisa painting in Paris. The 16th Century painting by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most famous artworks, and is held at the Louvre ...

A UK owner may come as a surprise, since few Van Gogh paintings have been bought by ... campaign to pay for the picture it dubbed “the Mona Lisa of Brabant”. Among the major backers were ...

A Dutch museum has reportedly broken the world record that an institution has paid for a Vincent van Gogh painting ... pay for what they dubbed “the Mona Lisa of Brabant”.

"What is more important? Art or the right to have a healthy and sustainable food system?" These words resounded in Paris' Louvre museum on Sunday, as Mona Lisa 's soup-smeared face gazed down on ...