Her image is everywhere from T-shirts to coffee mugs, but it was only recently that the true identity of the woman in the ...

How did spies, curators, and an army of art handlers save some of the world's most important artwork? An excerpt from the new ...

But while politicians and generals braced for impact, one Frenchman had a completely different kind of emergency on his hands: how to save the Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile from vanishing forever.

Many artists have tried to recreate the Mona Lisa with their own twists, and most recently, some Genshin Impact players from China made their version of the iconic painting using nothing but ...

Where the face of the Mona Lisa once peered inscrutably at visitors, a worker scribbled her French name: La Joconde. He smudged out his first try and rewrote it more neatly just above, perhaps in ...

Never has a piece of art attracted more interest than a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci ...

The Mona Lisa is probably the most celebrated artwork ever made, visited by millions of tourists every year, constantly re-invented by film-makers, meme-makers and advertisers. But for art ...

Or finish the painting that will rank alongside the Mona Lisa. Why use my own intelligence when artificial intelligence can do the trick? If only they could find a way of transferring to me ...

Have you ever pictured yourself as "Mona Lisa," that mysterious lady that Leonardo da Vinci painted so long ago? Or do you have more in common with the stalwart farmers of "American Gothic" that Grant ...