Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps the world’s most famous painting. It’s also one of the world’s most mysterious. For centuries, art historians have analyzed the Mona Lisa, hoping ...

“We don’t know who (Mona Lisa) is, some believe she was a rich Tuscan merchant’s wife,” she said, referring to a popular historical theory that proposes the figure was based on Italian ...

An historic estate formerly occupied by relatives of the noblewoman depicted in the “Mona Lisa” — arguably the ... just west of Florence, Italy, the more than 700-year-old villa once ...

An Italian culture chief has called for the Mona Lisa to be returned to its country of origin after the director of the Louvre railed against the declining condition of Paris' famed museum.

Their wish? To achieve the repatriation of “stolen artefacts” that belong in Italy, most notably Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. A major difference is that the former, Vincenzo Peruggia, actually did ...

told Italian news agency ANSA. “[The Mona Lisa] is the most important thing. It has to come back to Italy.” Restitution, of course, has become a hot-button issue in recent years—but it’s ...

(Celestina speaking in foreign language) (reflective music) - Celestina believed that her father stole the Mona Lisa out of patriotism to return an Italian painting to its home country.

The scrutiny around the "Mona Lisa" spurred Francesca Caruso, the regional assessor for culture in Italy’s Lombardy region, to call for the painting to be returned to Milan, home to da Vinci's ...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella (l.) and French President Emmanuel Macron stand in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in 2023. Photo by AURELIEN MORISSARD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Des Cars ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own ... China and neighboring countries Italy, the U.K., Germany and Spain.