The Mona Lisa has received increased attention this weekend – for all the wrong reasons. The masterpiece has been covered in soup by climate activists at the Louvre in Paris, France this morning ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Leonardo da Vinci feud: The 'earlier' Mona Lisa mystery Louvre reunited with stolen 16th-Century armour "This work and its history illustrate the fascination that the Mona Lisa and the aura of ...
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.
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 ...
PARIS, May 30. /TASS/. A young environmental activist has thrown a cake at Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci's painting Gioconda (Mona Lisa) on display in the Louvre in Paris, the BFM TV channel ...
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 ...