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 ...

Peruggia maintained that the painting never should have left Italy and he was right to bring it back, but the legal system disagreed; he spent six months in prison, and the Mona Lisa said ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century Florence, Italy. The work is hailed as an artistic masterpiece for its ...

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 ...

But while politicians and generals braced for impact, one Frenchman had a completely different kind of emergency on his hands: how to save the Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile from vanishing forever.

The Mona Lisa is probably the most celebrated artwork ever made, visited by millions of tourists every year, constantly re-invented by film-makers, meme-makers and advertisers. But for art ...

Never has a piece of art attracted more interest than a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci ...

Here, old-school eateries like Mona Lisa Italian Foods, Filippi's Pizza Grotto and Waterfront Bar & Grill neighbor trendy, upscale establishments like Kettner Exchange, Juniper & Ivy and The Crack ...