Here’s something to smile about. The enigma wrapped in a riddle known as Mona Lisa has long been the subject of speculation: Is her ambiguous expression a smile? A recent study by the University of ...

A viral TikTok video claiming Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa painting was stolen caused massed confusion on social media. If you ever thought people didn't care about history or art, the social ...

On this day 114 years ago, a handyman walked into the Louvre Museum in Paris and walked out with the most famous painting in the world. That's right, the Mona Lisa was stolen on Aug. 21, 1911, so ...

Without a good backstory, many of the most famous and valuable collectibles would be little more than forgotten knickknacks. That T206 Honus Wagner card worth millions? If it wasn’t for its legendary ...

The mysterious half-smile that has intrigued viewers of the Mona Lisa for centuries isn’t really that difficult to interpret, Dutch researchers said Thursday. She was smiling because she was happy — ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, Mona Lisa, has intrigued and befuddled scholars for centuries. Traditionally, it’s been thought that the subject, Mona Lisa, was gleefully hiding a secret from those ...

Leonardo da Vinci, the creator of the famous Mona Lisa, was an Italian painter and sculptor. This raises the question of why the work is not displayed in his homeland but rather in the Louvre in Paris ...

An ownership dispute is heating up over a version of the Mona Lisa that is widely believed to be by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci. An international consortium jointly owns the painting, but now the ...

The Mona Lisa, housed in the Louvre in Paris, has been copied many times. The most famous of those copies has to be the Hekking Mona Lisa, named after its previous owner, the antiquarian Raymond ...

A small painting with a colossal profile, the Mona Lisa is the art world’s ultimate status symbol. It draws millions to Paris every year, dominates pop culture, and still sparks one question more than ...