The Louvre museum in Paris received a written note from someone threatening to bomb the Mona Lisa and other valuable ... Due ...
In an effort to remedy this situation, the Mona Lisa may be moved to an underground chamber, according to a report in The ...
Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard about the time the Mona Lisa actually vanished from the Louvre in Paris for nearly two and a half years.
Laurence des Cars, the director of the Louvre, has suggested moving "Mona Lisa" to her own basement room, to make the visitor experience more satisfying. "It's high time this queen of the Louvre ...
We are looking at something which was worked on in parallel with the Mona Lisa at the end of Leonardo's life. "It is almost certainly a preparatory work for an oil painting." Louvre conservation ...
Mona Lisa has been displayed in the Salle des États in the Louvre since 2005 She's one of the world's most recognisable faces, with a smile that's been printed on mugs, bags and T-shirts across ...
Hung up on one of the walls of Louvre, ‘Mona Lisa’ has been subject to vandalism, theft, robbery, criticism, and much more, but it continues to amaze its lovers even today, about 500 years later.
In 1910, Vincenzo begins working at glassworks company Gobier, which was busy fitting glass covers on 16,000 paintings at the Louvre to protect them from vandalism. A worker hanging the Mona Lisa ...