Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps the world’s most famous painting. It’s also one of the world’s most mysterious. For centuries, art historians have analyzed the Mona Lisa, hoping ...

“We don’t know who (Mona Lisa) is, some believe she was a rich Tuscan merchant’s wife,” she said, referring to a popular historical theory that proposes the figure was based on Italian ...

An Italian culture chief has called for the Mona Lisa to be returned to its country of origin after the director of the Louvre railed against the declining condition of Paris' famed museum.

The scrutiny around the "Mona Lisa" spurred Francesca Caruso, the regional assessor for culture in Italy’s Lombardy region, to call for the painting to be returned to Milan, home to da Vinci's ...

The Mona Lisa has been a resident of the Louvre Museum in Paris for centuries, but there is a new push by some in Italy for the world-famous painting to be moved to Milan ahead of the 2026 Winter ...

learned and inventive Italian Renaissance master may have been in a particularly experimental mood when he set to work on the "Mona Lisa" early in the 16th century. The oil-paint recipe that ...

(Celestina speaking in foreign language) (reflective music) - Celestina believed that her father stole the Mona Lisa out of patriotism to return an Italian painting to its home country.

An Italian culture chief has called for the masterpiece ... everywhere is more than just an expensive oil painting. The Mona Lisa one of the most replicated and reinterpreted works worldwide.

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century Florence, Italy. The work is hailed as an artistic masterpiece for its ...