A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. But was she also the subject of the Mona Lisa? Many scholars believe she ...
The security in the Louvre in the 1900s wasn't quite as strict as it is these days, and petty thief Vincenzo Peruggia decided ...
Early on Saturday morning, thieves blew open the door of the Drents Museum in the Netherlands and stole priceless gold ...
An Italian official has called for France’s Louvre Museum to temporarily return the Mona Lisa as the museum faces concerns of ...
Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in ...
A worker hanging the Mona Lisa When Vincenzo starts work at the Louvre, he is immediately struck by just how many Italian paintings there are. Many of them - as he finds out – were taken from ...
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce possibly hundreds of millions of euros in renovation work for the ...