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 ...

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 ...

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.

Its bizarre yet captivating imagery has made it one of the most recognizable works in modern art history. Girl with a Pearl ...

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

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 ...

The Mona Lisa by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous painting in the world. What is the secret behind the "real" Mona Lisa? It draws legions of visitors to the ...

Leonardo da Vinci feud: The 'earlier' Mona Lisa mystery Louvre reunited with stolen 16th-Century armour "This work and its history illustrate the fascination that the Mona Lisa and the aura of ...