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 ...
Day, the author of Baby Meets World, wrote his narrative nonfiction as an account of the attempt to steal the Mona Lisa in ...
Previously, another visitor attempted to vandalize the artwork by throwing cake at it. Following these events, there has been ...
Leonardo da Vinci, “La Gioconda / Mona Lisa” (c. 1503 to 1517), oil on ... “Leonardo was an acute observer of nature, but he did not ‘copy’ nature in his works,” Fiorani told ...
At long last, Berenson had freed himself from the vampiric face of the Mona Lisa. Today Leonardo’s painting, happily ...
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 ...