For centuries,the Girl with a Pearl Earring, has captured the fascination of audiences worldwide. The painting, created by ...

Chinese-born contemporary painter Yan Pei-Ming decided to take on the world's most famous subject, the Mona Lisa, by creating a huge set of five paintings, "The Funeral of the Mona Lisa," on ...

The hidden portrait features a sitting subject who looks almost identical to the "Mona Lisa," minus small but significant differences. The sitter in the image appears to be looking to the side ...

Indeed, Leonardo da Vinci’s world-renowned painting, also known as “La Gioconda,” inspired the name of a scientific phenomenon: the Mona Lisa effect, or the perception that the subject of an ...

Some claim the subject’s lack of eyebrows is representative of high-class fashion of the time. Others insist her AWOL eyebrows are proof that Mona Lisa is an unfinished masterpiece. But in 2007 ...

It shows the Mona Lisa, perhaps the most famous painting in the world, edited to present its subject at ease, reclining with her feet up. Her smile is unmistakably happy rather than enigmatic ...

"According to some influent theories of emotion neuropsychology, we interpreted the Mona Lisa asymmetric smile as a non-genuine smile, also thought to occur when the subject lies," the team writes ...

the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's ...

A Mona Lisa-lookalike that could be worth millions is the subject of a new lawsuit filed by a prestigious European family seeking partial ownership of the coveted painting, according to a report.