The Parisian powerhouse opened the competition on June 27 with aims to expand its storied space and ease its visitor congestion through a newly designed entrance and exhibition space for one of its ...

Paris’ iconic Louvre Museum is set to undergo an ambitious €800 million renovation, with completion aimed for 2031. As part ...

For centuries, the Mona Lisa has mesmerized viewers with her mysterious smile, captivating the imaginations of art lovers, ...

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa. Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images. The painting is believed to depict Lisa del Giocondo, the rich wife of a silk merchant who commissioned the painting in 1503.

La Gioconda [the Mona Lisa] is therefore a happy woman whose natural attribute is a smile. The Joker and the Mona Lisa share the same etymology: Jocus’ in Latin,” adds the museum statement.

N ext to Franklin Roosevelt’s and the Cheshire Cat’s, perhaps the most famous smile in the world is that on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Gioconda, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris. Dr.

The intrigue of the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, isn’t solely due to Leonardo’s revolutionary painting techniques. It’s also because the identity of the subject is unconfirmed to ...

The intrigue of the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, isn’t solely due to Leonardo’s revolutionary painting techniques. It’s also because the identity of the subject is unconfirmed to ...

France’s Louvre could move the Mona Lisa to her own basement room. Here’s why. She’s the world’s most famous and most visited work of art, with up to ten million admirers per year.

Thus the Mona Lisa has become a lightning rod for attacks — including a two-year hiatus when it was stolen from the Louvre by a disgruntled Italian emigre in Paris, Vincente Perugia, who tried ...