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.

He also announced that the Mona Lisa — one of the most famous of the estimated 35,000 works of art in the Louvre's collection — would be relocated to its own new, independently accessible and ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the ...

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 ...

Frankie Dytor receives funding from The British Academy. When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa had ...

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 ...

The Louvre’s last overhaul dates back to the 1980s, when the iconic glass pyramid was unveiled. Macron said the expansion of the museum will allow the “Mona Lisa” to be moved to a new ...