One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso ...

Experts say jewels stolen in heists from the iconic Parisian museum are hard to recover, as they are broken down.

Following a daring €88 million jewel heist at the Louvre, a viral meme imagines the museum's artworks coming to life to ...

It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an ...

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 ...

The French museum Louvre is the latest victim in the growing trend of high-value museum heists across the world. In the ...

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: ...

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 ...

The world's most-visited museum reopened three days after thieves made off with $100 million in jewels in a brazen crime that ...

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 ...