The “Mona Lisa,” painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, is undoubtedly one of the most famous artworks in ...

Many of them - as he finds out – were taken from Italy when Napoleon swept through it a century before ... Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa on Monday 21st August, 1911.

It was a record price for a reproduction. Virtual bidding began a week ago for the famous 17th-century copy of the Mona Lisa whose owner had defended as authentic in the 1960s and even challenged ...

Said to have been created by a follower of da Vinci in the early 17th Century, it is widely known as the Mona Lisa Hekking after ex-owner Raymond Hekking. Hekking, who died in 1977, cast doubt on ...