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For centuries, critics and observers alike have argued over if Mona Lisa is smiling. Do we now have an answer?
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps the world’s most famous painting. It’s also one of the world’s most mysterious. For centuries, art historians have analyzed the Mona Lisa ...
How did spies, curators, and an army of art handlers save some of the world's most important artwork? An excerpt from the new ...
The decision to isolate the Mona Lisa in a dedicated room at the Louvre is a response to a need for crowd management, but it ...
What is undeniable is that it took nearly 24 hours for someone to notice the Mona Lisa was gone. It's believed artist Louis Béroud first reported the missing artwork to security after arriving at ...
The Mona Lisa is probably the most celebrated artwork ever made, visited by millions of tourists every year, constantly re-invented by film-makers, meme-makers and advertisers. But for art ...
Montréal Mona Hatoum, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Mona Hatoum, C.R.G. Art Incorporated, New York 1995 Mona Hatoum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and The New ...
Never has a piece of art attracted more interest than a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci ...