Visiting the Louvre museum for the first time is a time-honored right of passage for any trip to Paris, France. And seeing the Mona Lisa tops the bucket list of many travel and art lovers.

The Louvre confirmed no damage was done to the Mona Lisa, which has been exhibited behind protective armoured glass since 2005. Following the incident, Paris police said they had arrested two ...

The Louvre, for example, chose to move Mona Lisa in the evening, after the museum had closed. Getty Images The Salle des États is the Louvre's most-visited room Then, the workers do a trial run ...

He enters the museum by a side-door in his white ... he takes his wife to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa. “One day,” he tells her, “the shingles on this roof will rot but my name will ...

The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 caused an international sensation. Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the world's most visited museum, hid in a cupboard overnight to take da ...

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 ...

The Louvre itself has not yet released ... when the work of Da Vinci was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum, it was sprayed with paint, but the Mona Lisa was restored. Prior to that, in ...

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.

Louvre Abu Dhabi’s latest Post-Impressionism exhibition, which highlights some unexpected perspectives, and a flux of new ...

The Louvre features everything from Egyptian ... "The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault and Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," the museum's biggest star, can be found here.