Leonardo da Vinci began painting the “Mona Lisa” in 1503, during a period when Florence was a thriving center of arts and culture. The Renaissance was in full bloom, marked by a renewed ...

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 ...

The Mona Lisa was being slowly injected with a dose of eerie, haunted beauty. But it wasn't until 1873, when the Oxford aesthete Walter Pater published his explosive book Studies in the History of the ...

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

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 ...

J-Hope of BTS released his new single Mona Lisa and its music video on March 21. The video features playful choreography, ...

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 ...

BTS' J-Hope is on a roll! After the release of Sweet Dreams (feat. Miguel), the singer has released a new track, titled Mona Lisa. J-Hope sings about women and celebrates them with his lyrics.

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 ...