I have a complicated relationship with the Mona Lisa. She is the best-known artwork in the world. Books, films, songs and ...

Nineteenth-century art critics were troubled by vampirism and gender ambiguity in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting.

"When I came to Lecco. I realized he had painted the Mona Lisa here." For centuries, art historians have been trying to figure out where the real-life landscape in the background of Leonardo da ...

But it wasn't until 1873, when the Oxford aesthete Walter Pater published his explosive book Studies in the History of the Renaissance that the character of the Mona Lisa took a decisively gothic ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

Day, the author of Baby Meets World, wrote his narrative nonfiction as an account of the attempt to steal the Mona Lisa in ...

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 ...

Source: Wikipedia: Public Domain Some Renaissance paintings, such as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, always seem to be staring at one, no matter where one is standing in the room. Her gaze ...

Interact with a large projection of the “Mona Lisa” at “Da Vinci — An Immersive ... The documentary, set against a backdrop of Renaissance Italy, features da Vinci’s personal notebooks ...

The renovation project, branded “Louvre New Renaissance,” will include a ... Macron said the expansion of the museum will allow the “Mona Lisa” to be moved to a new, dedicated room ...