French police have arrested two people after protesters threw lentil soup at the Mona Lisa painting in Paris. Footage shows two environmental protesters hurling the orange liquid at the painting ...

The Mona Lisa half-length portrait was painted by none other than Leonardo da Vinci in 1503. Learn about Monalisa’s real name ...

A charcoal drawing housed in another art collection for more than 150 years may have been a sketch for the Mona Lisa, a French art expert says. The charcoal portrait of a nude woman, known as the ...

However, the Mona Lisa (real name ‘La Gioconda’ because the subject is thought to be Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo) was actually bought by the French king Francis I from Leonardo da Vinci.

then-French culture minister André Malraux was approached by First Lady Jackie Kennedy during an official trip to Washington in 1962, who asked him if the US could display Mona Lisa. He was open ...

The Louvre has long exhibited the Mona Lisa in Paris, where it regularly receives ... acquisition remain "tangled," it is known that the French king Francis I had held the work since at least ...

The cultural institutions are increasingly calling on subcontractors for security services, audio guide rental, reception and ...

Earlier French Culture Minister Francoise Nyssen ... The director of the Moscow museum, which had already hosted the Mona Lisa in 1974 for two months, said: "We will request [the Mona Lisa ...