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

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

The Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated gallery inside the Louvre Museum which is due to undergo major renovations and ...

The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...

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