The Mona Lisa, housed in the Louvre in Paris, has been copied many times. The most famous of those copies has to be the Hekking Mona Lisa, named after its previous owner, the antiquarian Raymond ...

Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact ...

PARIS, June 11 (Reuters) - Raymond Hekking spent decades trying to convince the world that the Mona Lisa painting he bought from a French antique shop in 1953 was the real thing and the one in the ...

For centuries, viewers of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa have been captivated by her mysterious smile and timeless gaze. But behind the brushstrokes was a real woman—Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florence ...

Will the real Mona Lisa please stand up—or at least send us a signal from within the paint layers? The art world is buzzing over a French scientist's claims that he discovered a portrait of another ...

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Researchers opened a centuries-old Florence tomb on Friday in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo da Vinci ...

Archaeologists digging for the remains of the real-life Mona Lisa have found a female skeleton, but they say it doesn't belong to the mysterious Florentine noblewoman, according to news reports. The ...

Raymond Hekking spent decades trying to convince the world that the Mona Lisa painting he bought from a French antique shop in 1953 was the real thing and the one in the Louvre Museum was a fake. By ...