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

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

An Italian official has called for France’s Louvre Museum to temporarily return the Mona Lisa as the museum faces concerns of disrepair.

The leaked memo said the Louvre suffered from “proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor condition.” ...

In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a well-to-do Florentine silk merchant, a commission from 14 years earlier. At the time, she had been 24 years old ...

If Mona Lisa del Giocondo had had any idea of the lengths to which critics would go in trying to explain her enigmatic smile in Leonardo da Vinci’s famed portrait, she might have split her sides ...

Born into a poor family from a small Italian Alpine village, Vincenzo Peruggia moves to Paris at the age of 20, in search of a better life. Once in Paris, Vincenzo starts work as a house painter.

The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman named Lisa Gherardini. She was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, a wealthy Florentine silk merchant from Italy. The painting was created by Leonardo da ...

The “Mona Lisa” was commissioned by Francesco del Giocondo and is believed to be his wife Lisa del Giocondo. There are several beliefs about how it ended up in France from being part of the ...