Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met as part of its ‘Manet/Degas’ exhibition “Olympia” — the Mona Lisa of modern art — has come to America for the first time. Édouard Manet began painting his ...

Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca. 1503–08). Who was the sitter? What does her smile mean? Is the ...

LECCO, Italy, May 15 (Reuters) - Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, an academic believes she has unravelled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world's most famous ...

One museum heist, or perhaps the publicity surrounding it, is credited with making a priceless masterpiece of a painting that had been celebrated by aficionados but virtually unknown to the public: ...

Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the “Mona Lisa,” an academic believes she has unraveled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world’s most famous works of art. Art historians ...

Let’s not quibble about that. Let’s just agree Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait isn’t going to overwhelm with its grandeur. The Mona Lisa is an oversized postage stamp. I’m not going to abase the portrait ...

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Peruggia held onto the Mona Lisa for about two years, hiding it in a trunk in his apartment, before he tried to sell it to an art dealer in Florence. The dealer notified the director of the Uffizi ...

If you have ever visited Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) at the Louvre in Paris, you may have noticed a little mailbox in the room adjacent to the one that houses the famous painting. Believe it ...