PARÍS — La “Mona Lisa” ha revelado otro de sus secretos.Utilizando rayos X para escudriñar la estructura química de una mota de la célebre obra de arte, los ciantíficos han penetrado un ...

Louvre Museum in Paris closed unexpectedly because of a staff strike. Thousands of tourists were left outside. Workers ...

The Mona Lisa now has its own wall; next year, it will get its own room. For the museum’s crown jewel, little is left to chance: The painting is housed in an air-conditioned glass case, and ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris, home to the Mona Lisa, unexpectedly shut down due to a staff strike, leaving tourists stranded. Workers cite unbearable conditions from mass tourism, understaffing, and ...

Stealing “La Joconde” — the woman in the portrait is probably the Florentine silk merchant’s wife Lisa del Giocondo — was not particularly difficult. The main thing it took was nerve.

In 1516, when he was 64 years old, Leonardo da Vinci found himself at a crossroads. His patron, Giuliano de’ Medici, the brother of Pope Leo X, had just died and new commissions were not ...

COLUMN. The museum's management wants to isolate the 'Mona Lisa' in a room with its own entrance, which could help rid the painting of overtourism, says Michel Guerrin, editor-in-chief of Le Monde.

This photograph shows the painting "La Joconde" (the Mona Lisa) by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci at the Louvre museum in Paris, Jan. 28, 2025. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images.

She’s five centuries old. She lives behind bulletproof glass. And yet, the Mona Lisa still grips people like a psychological ...

The bulletproof glass casing surrounding the Mona Lisa was doused with soup on January 28 by two food activists ... La Gioconda — or the 'jovial one,' as the painting was ironically named by ...

The Mona Lisa would be “delivered to the French ambassador with a solemnity worthy of Leonardo da Vinci,” he added, “and a spirit of happiness worthy of Mona Lisa’s smile.” On Jan. 4 ...