The so-called "Earlier Mona Lisa" is at the heart of a mystery that involves Caribbean tax havens, Swiss bank vaults, a mysterious international consortium, and the Sherlock Holmes of the art world.

Described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world," we are all familiar with the Mona Lisa. However ...

Hekking acquired the canvas in the 1950s from an art dealer in Nice. Leonardo da Vinci feud: The 'earlier' Mona Lisa mystery Louvre reunited with stolen 16th-Century armour "This work and its ...