When Winnie Wong first saw Dafen Oil Painting Village in 2006, it was nothing like she’d imagined. Then a graduate student in art history at MIT, Wong had read about the Chinese village in The New ...

For centuries, viewers of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa have been captivated by her mysterious smile and timeless gaze. But behind the brushstrokes was a real woman—Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florence ...

Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art. By Rochelle Gurstein. Yale University Press; 520 pages; $40 and £30 After Taylor Swift, the “Mona Lisa” is probably the most recognisable ...

The Florentine countryside estate is a 30,138-square-foot property on over 66 acres of land Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Paging Dan Brown. After 35 years of research, a Swiss group is presenting what they say to be is an original version of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece. All kidding aside, the Mona Lisa Foundation, a ...