The Musée du Louvre expansion will build a new entrance and dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, to be selected in an ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its legend to a brazen Italian thief who stole it from the Louvre and vanished ...

The human face has inspired artists around the world for millennia, and the mask provides a dynamic form for exploring issues such as cultural identity, gender, performance, and appropriation. But ...

Mona Lisa is finally moving out of shared digs and into her own space at the Louvre, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday — and visiting Americans will be expected to help fund ...

Many people believe that ‘Mona Lisa’ got its fame from the theft it endured in 1911. An Italian handyman named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the painting from the Louvre, believing that it belonged ...

Samuel Morse consolidated Louvre masterpieces in an imaginary gallery. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre / Macbeth Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, SI; Terra Foundation for American Art ...

The precise route by which the Mona Lisa entered Francis’s collection is still quite tangled, but he hardly had to indulge in some kind of illegitimate appropriation of a painting by his own artist.

The Louvre in Paris may have the Mona Lisa. But fighting a crowd to catch a glimpse of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is far less appealing than the experience you can get for free at the ...

By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski In the pantheon of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stands as an unrivalled icon. This half-length portrait is more than just an artistic ...

Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, an academic believes she has unravelled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world's most famous works of art.

A collaboration between Texas-based Kendra Scott and American Western clothing brand Wrangler has been slammed by critics who accuse the brands of cultural appropriation.(Hand-out / Kendra Scott ...