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It is a truly enigmatic work that everyone must see at least once in their life, especially if they are art lovers and appreciators. Hung up on one of the walls of Louvre, ‘Mona Lisa’ has been ...
Up to 10 million people a year visit the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre, crowding into the Paris gallery where "she gazes out from behind 3in of bulletproof glass", said The Times. Many visitors queue ...
When I took my mother back to Paris for her first visit in nearly five decades, there was no question we would go to the ...
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 ...
Born into a poor family from a small Italian Alpine village, Vincenzo Peruggia moves to Paris at the age of 20, in search of a better life ... Mona Lisa When Vincenzo starts work at the Louvre ...
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.
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 ...
Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism ...