FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Researchers opened a centuries-old Florence tomb on Friday in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo da Vinci ...

Archaeologists digging for the remains of the real-life Mona Lisa have found a female skeleton, but they say it doesn't belong to the mysterious Florentine noblewoman, according to news reports. The ...

On this day 114 years ago, a handyman walked into the Louvre Museum in Paris and walked out with the most famous painting in the world. That's right, the Mona Lisa was stolen on Aug. 21, 1911, so ...

The Mona Lisa’s real rise to stardom began with a crime. On a summer morning in 1911, the painting vanished from the Louvre.

Will the real Mona Lisa please stand up—or at least send us a signal from within the paint layers? The art world is buzzing over a French scientist's claims that he discovered a portrait of another ...

“Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon” opens where any good stylishly ironic demon-out-of-water fairy-tale thriller should: in an insane asylum. That’s where Mona Lisa (Jeon Jong-seo), a catatonic waif, is ...

Researchers have opened graves in a decayed convent in Florence, Italy to try and find the woman who may have modelled for Leonardo da Vinci in his most famous painting. According to Italian art ...

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Researchers have begun their hunt for the remains of the woman who might have been the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, hoping to unravel a mystery that has baffled ...

The Mona Lisa, housed in the Louvre in Paris, has been copied many times. The most famous of those copies has to be the Hekking Mona Lisa, named after its previous owner, the antiquarian Raymond ...

The director comes into her own in this stylishly ironic demon-out-of-water fairy-tale thriller, which makes a feral waif with telekinetic powers seem almost real. “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon” opens ...