A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not only by Leonardo da Vinci, but also an earlier version of the world famous portrait that ...

The Supreme Administrative Court of France has dismissed a lawsuit by the organization International Restitutions, which ...

In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

Life flows peacefully in Vinci: Leonardo is struggling with his incredible inventions, Lorenzo helps him and Gioconda observes them mockingly. When A mysterious storyteller comes to town and ...

When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris, the art critic heaved an enormous sigh of relief. Finally, he reflected ...

Just like the gods who have the supernatural powers to make plenty out of scarcity, artists have the ability to create with ...

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel from Dan Brown’s bestselling 2003 mystery thriller (which also inspired the hit 2006 film starring Tom Hanks), the talky, excessively plotty and overly long ...

A VISUALLY impaired composer has interpreted the sounds of some of the world's most famous artworks and turned them into music. Bobby Goulder, who has Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy and cannot ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its ...