The “Mona Lisa,” painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, is undoubtedly one of the most famous artworks in the world. Housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, this captivating portrait ...
Later that year, a Bolivian man named Hugo Unjaga ... and hurled it at the Mona Lisa. The painting was undisturbed, and the only victim was the innocent piece of porcelain. The Louvre said the ...
If you’ve ever visited the Louvre in Paris and seen the Mona Lisa, you may well have been underwhelmed. Not because the ...
and more than 50 years later, a bitter battle has erupted over both the ownership of the picture and the evidence about who painted it. The so-called "Earlier Mona Lisa" is at the heart of a ...
The Louvre has been undergoing massive renovations for the past five years ... able to work around Mona Lisa. Now, they need to carry out work on the wall behind the painting.