Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps the world’s most famous painting. It’s also one of the world’s most mysterious. For centuries, art historians have analyzed the Mona Lisa, hoping ...

John Ruskin, England's preeminent mid-Victorian critic, wrote off the Mona Lisa as a total mess. He lamented that the painting's background was simply“grotesque” being all“blue and unfinished”. A ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda ... barely discernible landscape in the background was sent everywhere on all continents [when it went missing]. "So in its absence from the wall of ...

John Ruskin, England’s preeminent mid-Victorian critic, wrote off the Mona Lisa as a total mess. He lamented that the painting’s background was simply “grotesque” being all “blue and ...