In a new partnership, the retail giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and the Musée du Louvre have launched Louvre au centre, a ...

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

I have a complicated relationship with the Mona Lisa. She is the best-known artwork in the world. Books, films, songs and poems celebrate and parody her. Amateur investigators have identified her as a ...

he witnessed what is now the flag of France being flown over Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral by the victorious rebels. The "Mona Lisa" is certainly the most famous piece from the museum, but if she ...

“You are fascinated and troubled,” the historian Jules Michelet imagined in his monumental book Histoire de France (1855), describing himself in the Louvre moving like hypnotised prey towards the ...

Masterpieces such as "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugene Delacroix, "The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault and Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," the museum's biggest star, can be found ...

When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa had been stolen from the ... particularly in France. Writers newly praised the strange feelings that Leonardo’s paintings ...

Instead Da Vinci took the unfinished piece with him when he moved to France to work at the court of King Francis I in 1516. When the painter died three years later, the Mona Lisa was passed onto ...