The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and Napoleon Bonaparte both fell in love with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, she ...

PARIS (AP) — A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth.

Most historians believe Lisa del Giocondo sat for da Vinci. She became a nun after her husband's death, and was buried beneath the convent in Florence. Last year, archeologists found a female-sized ...