mona lisa's smile was not genuine when leonardo da vinci painted her, scientists say In 1974, the Mona Lisa hit the road. While at the Tokyo National Museum, a woman sprayed the top of Mona Lisa ...

Leonardo da Vinci spends 14 years working on the Mona Lisa, the culmination of all his knowledge. Toward the end of his life, Leonardo da Vinci finally finds the perfect patron – the King of ...

Leonardo da Vinci may have painted another ‘Mona Lisa.’ Now, there’s a legal battle over who owns it ... "Mona Lisa Leonardo's Earlier Version." Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images.

Scientists have discovered a new secret in Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa. AP “In this case, it’s interesting to see that indeed there is a specific technique for the ground layer of ...

Mona Lisa's famous smile might not have been genuine when she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago. Scientists wanted to investigate Lisa Gherardini's facial expression and ...

Journalists walk past Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa during a visit of the Louvre museum Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Christophe Ena / AP ...

What's staggering about this painting — which experts believe da Vinci painted around 1500 when he was 48 and roughly when he also was working on the Mona Lisa — is that for centuries it vanished.

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous portrait in the world, but now, some are speculating that the woman with the inscrutable smile may not be a woman after all. They are ...

A purported version of the world’s most iconic painting, Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa, has surfaced in Singapore, and appears to show a younger Mona Lisa in front of a different background.

When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, he may have experimented with lead oxide in his base layer, resulting in trace amounts of a compound called plumbonacrite.It ...

Leonardo da Vinci may have painted another ‘Mona Lisa.’ Now, there’s a legal battle over who owns it ... "Mona Lisa Leonardo's Earlier Version." Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images.

Kept hidden for decades in a Swiss vault, the so-called “Isleworth Mona Lisa” is at the center of a mysterious ownership dispute. ... Leonardo da Vinci may have painted another ‘Mona Lisa.’ ...