Rarely seen in public, the two-volume manuscript is now on display in Rome – as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations, ...

This large rambling country house, home to Mona Lisa for the past six years, turns into a Christmas card each December. Large evergreen wreaths adorn its walls, poinsettias and wooden nutcrackers sit ...

Here’s something to smile about. The enigma wrapped in a riddle known as Mona Lisa has long been the subject of speculation: Is her ambiguous expression a smile? A recent study by the University of ...

The wild speculations surrounding both the identity and the mysterious smile of the sitter for the world’s most famous portrait, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, just never cease to amaze. Today, art ...

The Mona Lisa’s real rise to stardom began with a crime. On a summer morning in 1911, the painting vanished from the Louvre.

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

Now that the Mona Lisa is going to be moved to another room at the Louvre in Paris, masterworks hanging in the same space by the likes of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due. The ...