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 ...

Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa from France and returned it to Italy, was born on Oct. 8, 1881 and died on Oct. 8, 1925. Though he was misguided as a historian and an umpire of ...

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 ...

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.

(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.

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 ...

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 ...

Officials in Milan said they want to have the ”Mona Lisa” “return home” to Italy, The Times reported. Francesca Caruso, the culture chief for the Lombardy region wrote in a memo ...

The Mona Lisa has been a resident of the Louvre Museum in Paris for centuries, but there is a new push by some in Italy for the world-famous painting to be moved to Milan ahead of the 2026 Winter ...

Assunta Legnante secured a third Paralympic gold medal in style as the Italian shot putter donned a special Mona Lisa eye mask at Paris 2024. Legnante added to her F12 shot put titles from London ...