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 ...

The Mona Lisa led a peaceful existence for the next ... Later that year, a Bolivian man named Hugo Unjaga Villegas chucked a rock at the work of art. "I had a stone in my pocket and suddenly ...

A worker hanging the Mona Lisa When Vincenzo starts work at the Louvre, he is immediately struck by just how many Italian paintings there are. Many of them - as he finds out – were taken from ...

It quoted Pierre Etienne, international director of Old Master Paintings, as saying the Mona Lisa Hekking "is the dream of a man with a passion for art. She is his Ideal. "Raymond Hekking was her ...