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UNDATED (CNN Newsource/CNN/WKRC) - People have wondered and guessed for decades where the setting location in the Mona Lisa painting is. One geologist said she knows. The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, has been described as the most well-known ...
Explore the history of major art heists at Paris’s Louvre Museum — from the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa to Courbet’s missing The Wave and the recent jewellery robbery in the Apollo Room.
MIAMI -- Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is one of the best-known artworks in the world, famous for its beauty as well as the mystery surrounding the identity of the model and the location painted behind her. A source of debate for centuries, the village ...
PARIS (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Visitors looking to see Leonardo da Vinci's iconic 16th-century painting, the Mona Lisa, will eventually be going to a new location. The renowned artwork was set to receive its own dedicated room as part of an extensive ...
Mona Lisa may be smiling over this. A geologist and Renaissance art historian is claiming to have solved the centuries-old debate on the location of the Italian landscape behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Ann Pizzorusso, the author of the 2014 book ...
Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact with the mysteriously poised figure, you might just ...
It may well be the best known painting of all time, but mysteries still lurk behind the famous Mona Lisa smile. One longstanding historical dispute has been over the identity of the bridge in the background of Leonardo da Vinci’s celebrated portrait.
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