I was driving with my kids recently when we passed a billboard with a familiar face on it: the Mona Lisa. From the backseat ...

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The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, and the chief architect of France's historic monuments, François Chatillon, speak ...

The Mona Lisa has been the subject of awe and fascination for centuries, with experts from around the world desperate to solve the mystery behind her iconic, enigmatic smile. Now, thanks to X-ray ...

At the heart of the chaos is the Mona Lisa painting. More than 20,000 people pack into the Salle des etats (a room in the museum) every day to get a photo with the famous portrait.

The painting wasn’t famous—until it was stolen Before 1911, the Mona Lisa was important, sure. But not a global obsession. That changed when an Italian handyman, Vincenzo Peruggia, walked out of the ...

At the centre of the overcrowding crisis is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which draws the biggest crowds at the Louvre. The 16th-century painting attracts nearly 20,000 people a day, who flock to the ...

Visitors to the Louvre will be forced to traipse through a “Mona Lisa journey” covering a vast 32,000 square foot reception area to get a glimpse of the painting, the museum’s director has ...

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Confused tourists and stretched-thin staff aside, the strike and sudden closure of the Louvre is a sign of an even bigger problem, one that the most famous tourist destinations ar ...

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The subject of the Leonardo da Vinci painting Mona Lisa was a real woman named Lisa Gherardini. AI has reconstructed a behind-the-scenes of sorts of the work, where the noblewoman is imagined fixing ...