The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the worlds most famous painting, before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent ...

In 1516, when he was 64 years old, Leonardo da Vinci found himself at a crossroads. His patron, Giuliano de’ Medici, the brother of Pope Leo X, had just died and new commissions were not ...

The Mona Lisa is famed for two things: her enigmatic smile and her steady gaze, widely believed to follow her viewers around the room. Indeed, Leonardo da Vinci’s world-renowned painting, also ...

The “Mona Lisa Effect” — the impression that the eyes of a subject are staring right at or following a viewer — is actually a ... But La Gioconda’s gaze tilts right, researchers found.

The stunning find of what the Prado now says is probably the earliest known copy of La Gioconda will give art lovers and experts an idea of what the "Mona Lisa" looked like back in the 16th ...

The Mona Lisa, known as La Gioconda by Italians and La Joconde by the French, is thought to be a depiction of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant in Florence.

Visitors to the Louvre have long reported that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa (aka La Gioconda), has eyes that seem to follow one around the room.A small 2019 ...