Experts at the Louvre in Paris are investigating whether a charcoal sketch of a nude figure that resembles the Mona Lisa may in fact be the work of Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing, known as the Mona ...

A new high-tech study of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa suggests that the Renaissance master created the painting using a previously unknown preparatory sketch. The faint traces of a charcoal ...

Over the past month, scientists at the Louvre have been carefully examining a 16th-century charcoal drawing of a nude woman known as “Monna Vanna,” long attributed to the studio of Leonardo da Vinci.

French scientist Pascal Cotte has announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, Mona Lisa, was originally transferred from a cartoon. And while “cartoon” in this context just refers to a preliminary ...

Could Leonardo da Vinci have drawn a nude version of The Mona Lisa? Art experts say that is entirely possible. This charcoal drawing, titled the Monna Vanna, is now thought to have at least been ...

Researchers at the Louvre recently suggested that a charcoal drawing of a naked woman that looks very much like the Mona Lisa may actually be a portrait of the same model at least partially drawn by ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa continues to fascinate art observers with its compositional secrets. Recently, a scientist by the name of Pascal Cotte discovered a never-before-seen sketch beneath the ...