A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic ...

The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...

A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...

Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.

It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...

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Art critics hailed news of the move, saying that the precious painting has stolen the spotlight for long enough.

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in ...

As part of a massive renovation, the Leonardo da Vinci portrait will get its own gallery space accessible from a separate entrance ...

I remember when, as a child, I fought my way to the front of a queue of sweaty tourists in the Louvre, only to be pulled ...

There's a hidden drawing underneath the "Mona Lisa" — and it shows that this masterpiece almost looked very different.