I have a complicated relationship with the Mona Lisa. She is the best-known artwork in the world. Books, films, songs and poems celebrate and parody her. Amateur investigators have identified her as a ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its legend to a brazen Italian thief who stole it from the Louvre and vanished for ...

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino about the new book, How to Fall in Love with the Louvre.

The writer, a former New York Times journalist who has lived in Paris for more than 20 years, aims to make the Louvre ...

At long last, Berenson had freed himself from the vampiric face of the Mona Lisa. Today Leonardo’s painting, happily recovered in 1913 for generations of visitors after its theft in 1911, still looms ...

The famous 'Mona Lisa effect' is a fictional concept and experts have proven exactly why. Read more about the phenomenon here and find out the reason.