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 ...

Many people believe that ‘Mona Lisa’ got its fame from the theft it endured in 1911. An Italian handyman named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the painting from the Louvre, believing that it belonged ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is full of mysteries. Who was she? What is the meaning of the enigmatic expression on her face?

The Mona Lisa was painted by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s. It’s a half-length portrait painting and it’s considered ‘the best known, the most visited ...

Professor Isbouts also points out that historical records mention Leonardo painting the Mona Lisa for two different clients, raising the possibility that he completed two separate portraits ...

but the renovators have so far been able to work around Mona Lisa. Now, they need to carry out work on the wall behind the painting. Another painting in the same room, Veronese's Wedding Feast at ...

A deranged young male visitor disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at Leonardo Da Vicini's Mona Lisa painting at Paris ... his chair and acted out his rage at what ...