A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic ...
A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...
The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...
Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.
It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...
Art critics hailed news of the move, saying that the precious painting has stolen the spotlight for long enough.
As part of a massive renovation, the Leonardo da Vinci portrait will get its own gallery space accessible from a separate entrance ...
On Tuesday 28 January, French president Emmanuel Macron announced major renovation plans for the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in ...
An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to ...
A technological investigation at Sforza Castle found that it does in fact hold underground passages once described by ...
French President Emmanuel Macron compared the facelift to the rebuilding of the Notre Dame cathedral, which is still ongoing ...