Built in 1300, the historic estate near Florence once belonged to Francesco del Giocondo, husband of the famed noblewoman ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the Mona Lisa is possibly the world's most famous painting, and its painter is regarded as one of history's greatest artists, such a find would turn the art world upside down. The foundation ...

Mona Lisa has been displayed in the Salle des États ... Yes, but only a handful of times in recent history. The painting last left France in 1974, when it was loaned to Russia and to Japan.

After a prominent archaeologist said he would launch a campaign to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy ... we need to get the history right," Kemp wrote. His op-ed was a response to news from ...

In a feel-good moment in this otherwise politically charged season, the National Museum of the Philippines stepped up to buy ...

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 ...

When he felt a 3-D rendering of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” he says he noticed her smile right away: “I could literally feel what you see when you look at it.” For Luc this means ...

Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard about the time the Mona Lisa actually vanished from the Louvre in Paris for nearly two and a half years.

A ferocious bidding war for Jose Rizal’s “Josephine Sleeping” erupted last weekend at the Leon Gallery’s Kingly Treasures ...

After a savage bidding war over Rizal’s Josephine Sleeping, the National Museum of the Philippines put its own jaw-dropping epilogue to the historic Kingly Treasures auction of León Gallery held last ...