Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who was ...

Before 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was admired by artists - but hardly known by the public. Then a humble Italian ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a massive renovation of the Louvre in Paris -- including a separate gallery for the museum's most famous holding, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. POOL/AFP via ...

Known for her smoky eyes and taunting smile, the Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Now, after taking a closer look at the beloved Renaissance masterpiece, researchers have ...

A famous fake copy of the Mona Lisa, so similar to Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece that some experts questioned whether the real copy was hanging in the Louvre, was purchased Friday for $3.4 million, ...

The mysterious half-smile that has intrigued viewers of the Mona Lisa for centuries isn’t really that difficult to interpret, Dutch researchers said Thursday. She was smiling because she was happy — ...

If Mona Lisa doesn’t look happy to you, that might be because of your own mental state, according to scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. Our emotions change our perceptions of ...

From the Mona Lisa to the jewels of Napoleon, the Louvre has experienced over a century of high-profile heists.

Dashing the hopes of non-Paris-dwellers everywhere, it appears that the Louvre will not be sending the Mona Lisa on tour. The museum’s director has politely declined the French culture minister ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...