Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, a masterpiece, resides at the Louvre, protected by advanced security. Its journey from Renaissance Italy to French royal collections, through revolution and a famous ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and ...

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and Napoleon Bonaparte both fell in love with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, she ...

Painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, the Mona Lisa is widely believed to portray Lisa Gherardini, a Florentine merchant’s wife. Using revolutionary techniques like sfumato, Leonardo ...

I love museums. I enjoy the sense of discovery, the chance to compare great works of art and piece together how they connect ...

The Louvre was again closed to tourists this week, months after a band of jewelry thieves made headlines for stealing jewels ...

The Louvre museum closed to tourists Monday due to employee strikes over pay and working conditions that have been disrupting operations since last summer.

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As travellers begin locking in their European holidays for 2026, new research reveals the iconic landmarks where visitors are ...

Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in Word War ...

In the second line of the Hebrew Bible, before light, before land, before anything with a respectable shape, the world is ...

A rare copy of the 1938 comic that introduced Superman to the world has sold to an anonymous collector for $15m (£11.2m). The ...