Rarely seen in public, the two-volume manuscript is now on display in Rome – as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations, a tradition held every quarter century and which draws tens of millions of ...

The hidden image has art historians debating who the real-life 'Mona Lisa' was. — -- A hidden portrait underneath the "Mona Lisa" has been discovered by a French scientist, who said he uncovered ...

The site of excavations at the Sant'Orsolo convent in Florence, where bone fragments believed to be those of Mona Lisa were recovered. EPA ROME — Italian researchers said on Thursday they might have ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and ...

Every summer since 2011, a report has come out that a team of Italian archaeologists is closer to finding the tomb and the bones of Lisa Gherardini, the woman who many art historians believe sat for ...

The Borso D’Este Bible, famed for its intricate gold and lapis-lazuli illuminations, is accessible to the public in Italian ...

It may be that a restored copy of the Mona Lisa, recently unveiled at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, was painted by Leonardo da Vinci's assistant and purported lover, Salaì, Martin Bailey reports for ...

Art historians have insisted there was no way to improve on Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece the Mona Lisa. Then came “Is It Cake, Too?" In Season 2 of Netflix’s baking competition (now streaming), in ...

Explore how the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in Paris for over two years. It's the most famous painting in the world. Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard ...

CNN takes you “Inside the Louvre,” building an intimate portrait of a museum like no other. From the handler who looks after the Mona Lisa’s famous smile, to the new director, host Nick Glass meets ...

THIS is the shocking moment two pranksters successfully sneak a painting into the Louvre and hang it in the same room as the ...

It’s the kind of holiday décor that doesn’t just sit quietly in the corner. It winks at you. It smirks. It invites your cat to claw away with the confidence of a Renaissance artist taking creative ...