The art shows King Francois I purchase from ... used a coded message — La Joconde garde un sourire (The ‘Mona Lisa’ keeps her smile) — to contact the French resistance.” ...

Her smile is unmistakably happy ... craving embedded in the spurious memes. The Mona Lisa meme, however, gets at deeper psychological beliefs about art. We tend to anthropomorphize artworks ...

Scholars and art observers have long been fascinated ... titled "Unraveling the asymmetry of Mona Lisa smile." The research appears in a recent issue of the journal Cortex, which is devoted ...

all eager to see the mysterious woman whose enigmatic smile has puzzled historians and art lovers for centuries. But who was the Mona Lisa, and why has her portrait garnered such fame and intrigue?

The "Mona Lisa ... art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that Leonardo da Vinci used to paint his groundbreaking portrait of the woman with the exquisitely enigmatic smile.

Dozens of experts have studied the Mona Lisa to determine the scientific ... the paired touchstones of Leonardo’s art, been so intertwined. At the time when he was perfecting Lisa’s smile, Leonardo ...

As the exhibit tries to reveal art in a new light, it also attempts to answer one of the most enduring questions in the world — what's behind the Mona Lisa's smile. When asked, the digital ...

You can find those in the Cleveland Museum of Art, and you can enjoy them ... stands elbow-to-elbow to get a peek at the Mona Lisa. I can’t but smile as I compare what Clevelanders have to ...

POOL/AFP via Getty Images Now she’s really got something to smile about. Mona Lisa is moving out of shared ... the world’s most famous work of art — designed to improve access and shorten ...

The exact location of the bridge, along with much else about the revered work of art by the Italian master ... it's a debate that could almost make the Mona Lisa smile. And while we may never ...