Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and Napoleon Bonaparte both fell in love with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, she ...

The hidden image has art historians debating who the real-life 'Mona Lisa' was. — -- A hidden portrait underneath the "Mona Lisa" has been discovered by a French scientist, who said he uncovered ...

PARIS, France — The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and ...

Protected in a bullet-proof glass vitrine and behind a barrier, the Mona Lisa is never going to look its best. But come the fall, visitors to Louvre will be able to get up close and intimately ...

One museum heist, or perhaps the publicity surrounding it, is credited with making a priceless masterpiece of a painting that had been celebrated by aficionados but virtually unknown to the public: ...

A European collector bought the replica via Christie's Auction House in Paris. The painting's longtime owner said it was the true "Mona Lisa." See more stories on Insider's business page. A replica of ...

MADRID — Spain’s Prado Museum said Wednesday it has a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” that one of his students painted in the studio where the masterpiece was completed. A museum spokeswoman ...