The Louvre Museum in Paris is more than just the world’s largest art museum; it is a living testament to centuries of French ...
Following these events, there has been talk within the Louvre about potentially housing the "Mona Lisa" in a separate room to ...
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 ...
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 ...
the crowds can be a major turnoff (especially around the glass-enclosed "Mona Lisa"). Not to the point where travelers are willing to skip the Louvre altogether, but they stress going at a time ...
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 ...
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.
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.