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 ...

A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history. "I'm kinda like a prettier Jesus," Lisa del ...

"It was her, Lisa, the wife of the merchant Francesco del Giocondo - and she lived right opposite Leonardo in Via Ghibellina," Pallanti said when he unveiled his findings in 2007. Most modern ...

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.