inspiration comes from whatever -- and whoever -- is in the cultural zeitgeist, including celebs like Dolly Parton ... says is “very similar to the Mona Lisa, if the Mona Lisa was Dolly Parton ...

Mona Lisa may be smiling over this. A geologist and Renaissance art historian is claiming to have solved the centuries-old debate on the location of the Italian landscape behind Leonardo da Vinci ...

The exact location of the bridge, along with much else about the revered work of art by the Italian ... might have looked like around the time Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa at the beginning ...

If you have ever visited Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) at the Louvre in Paris ... writer Alfred Dumesnil noted in 1854, “but avid like the sea, devours.” Legend has it that, two ...

The Mona Lisa is an oversized ... do in their signature art museum. For Parisians, they’d have an impossible time walking and contemplating what each work of the old masters means.

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art ... "It flows more like honey." But the "Mona Lisa ...

At the time, she had been 24 years old and was the mother of 5 children. Leonardo had carried the painting from Florence to Milan, then to Rome, and finally over the Alps to France.

asked a representative of the art museum ... 56-year-old when we meet at a cafe in central Paris. “The camera was still a prototype then. I was very … anxious.” The Mona Lisa arrived ...