The woman in the painting looks back at us with a smile that never quite settles. It is neither cheerful nor cold, neither welcoming nor distant. For more than five centuries, viewers have leaned ...

Italian art historian Silvano Vinceti's journey to identify the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" has now wound its way to a graveyard. Yes: Vinceti has literally decided to unearth ...

It's the most famous painting in the world, but could the Mona Lisa have been hiding a disease in plain sight? Dr. Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women's Hospital says it's his opinion that Lisa ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a massive renovation of the Louvre in Paris -- including a separate gallery for the museum's most famous holding, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. POOL/AFP via ...

Naoto Nakagawa, paintings from the “Mona Lisa Series” (2017–19), acrylic on canvas, each piece 30 x 21 inches, the same dimensions as those of the original “Mona Lisa” (c.1503–19) by Leonardo da Vinci ...

Louvre visitors in front of The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese in June 2024. The painting is among several masterworks that may soon cease to play "second fiddle'" to the Mona Lisa. (Antoine ...