In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

Elaine Sciolino, formerly the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has volunteered herself as a chatty, amiable tour ...

Many Louvre employees find Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, the most famous work of art in the world, overrated. Yet around four-fifths of visitors come mainly to see it, bypassing other ...

What is protest, if not the trembling murmur of a society’s conscience? Across centuries and continents, protest has not only ...

What kind of art can you expect to find within the majestic walls of the Louvre? and when is the best time to embark on this ...

When the painter died three years later, the Mona Lisa was passed onto Da Vinci's apprentice and then sold to the French King before it eventually wound up at the Louvre. The portrait was put on ...

a dedicated room for Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa. The Louvre’s renovation will provide the Mona Lisa with its own dedicated space, accessible through a special ticketing system.

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel from Dan Brown’s bestselling 2003 mystery thriller (which also inspired the hit 2006 film starring Tom Hanks), the talky, excessively plotty and overly long ...

Entry to the Acropolis costs 30 euros, 22 euros for the Louvre, and 25 euros for Hagia Sophia. The "Smile of the Mona Lisa" becomes very expensive, as if someone wants to see the painting alone, they ...