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

A leaked memo revealed the alarming impacts of over-tourism, outdated facilities, and a swath of other issues at the famed ...

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

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

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

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

President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to alleviate crowds at the Paris museum and to charge higher fees for visitors from ...

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce possibly hundreds of millions of euros in renovation work for the ...