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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

which would eventually see a life of travel and majesty far sur­passing the life of its subject, Lisa Gherardini. In her new history, “Mona Lisa,” veteran journalist Dianne Hales shares with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Convinced that it was an earlier portrait of a younger Lisa del Giocondo, the subject of the Louvre’s “Mona Lisa,” Blaker’s stepfather John Eyre published research declaring it to be the ...

(CNN) -- The Mona Lisa is famed for two things: her enigmatic smile and her steady gaze, widely believed to follow her viewers around the room. Indeed, Leonardo da Vinci's world-renowned painting ...