A geologist claims to have identified the landscape visible in the background of the Mona Lisa, potentially solving one of the painting’s biggest mysteries. The world’s most famous painting ...

Moreover, the Mona Lisa seems to depict a portion of the Adda ... Why he should put a landscape of Albinor or a landscape of Arezzo or landscape of wherever is completely unclear.” ...

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.

Harriss traverses this landscape with an eye for the amusing ... for two years, the Mona Lisa vanished. Along the way, the Mona Lisa has preoccupied critics and historians from Hippolyte Taine ...

Through a recent study of the extant historical sources and archaeological evidence for past human activity on the island, we trace this historical landscape and seascape in order to review the ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda ... black and white of a profile of a woman with a vague, barely discernible landscape in the background was sent everywhere on all continents [when ...