Built around 1300, the villa came to be owned by the Giocondo clan in 1498, shortly before da Vinci painted Lisa in the early ...

The case for the Mona Lisa's restitution is weak—even though Egypt's Zahi Hawass offered to help Italy secure its return.

After a prominent archaeologist said he would launch a campaign to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy, one of the foremost ...

A grand and historic Italian villa outside Florence has hit the market for $19.66 million; it was previously owned by the ...

The Quality Enterprises construction company in Florida just flexed on every other builder in America by showcasing their ...

Mona Lisa has been displayed in the Salle des États in the Louvre since 2005 She's one of the world's most recognisable faces, with a smile that's been printed on mugs, bags and T-shirts across ...

Analyzing a minuscule speck of paint from Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, a team of scientists discovered new clues to the Italian artist's paint mixture. The oil-paint mixture features plumbonacrite, ...

But for all his efforts, Lepine has no hard leads. Initial reaction in Paris to the Mona Lisa's disappearance is decidedly one of denial. Many believe it is only a bad joke. When the Louvre ...

Quality Enterprises used its fleet of excavators, dozers and wheel loaders to recreate the world's most famous painting out ...

The disputed painted hanging in the London flat of art dealer Henry Pulitzer in the 1960s A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

Like bindweed blighting a beautiful garden, queues trail across the Cour Napoléon as I arrive at the Musée du Louvre on a ...