For centuries, critics and observers alike have argued over if Mona Lisa is smiling. Do we now have an answer?

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques ...

Scientists have confirmed Leonardo da Vinci’s bloodline by tracing matching DNA in living male-line descendants.

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

When Leonardo da Vinci was creating his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, he may have experimented with lead oxide in his base layer, resulting in trace amounts of a compound called plumbonacrite.

If the other paintings in the room that houses the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris could talk, they might be whispering "good riddance!" to one another right now. That's owing to French ...

This week, French president Emmanuel Macron announced plans for the iconic Mona Lisa to get its own dedicated room inside a renovated the Louvre museum. The artwork is visited by nearly nine ...

A broken doorknob was discovered in a garden outside the museum. But the Mona Lisa was gone, without a trace. The theft was the top story in the next day’s New York Times. Embarrassed museum ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing c.mayer@newsweek.com An art vandal has spoken out after defacing the priceless portrait of Mona Lisa by smearing cake across her face at the Louvre museum ...

The room which houses the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris was last renovated only five years ago, in 2019. But the museum is now already looking at making further improvements. In an ...