For centuries, the Mona Lisa has mesmerized viewers with her mysterious smile, captivating the imaginations of art lovers, ...

Louvre Museum in Paris closed unexpectedly because of a staff strike. Thousands of tourists were left outside. Workers ...

James Fox asks how the Mona Lisa became the most famous painting in the world. Attribution. BBC Radio 4. Available for over a year. 28 mins. Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling.

(1) In 1930, Iowan artist Grant Wood paints American Gothic using his sister Nan and a local dentist as models. (The history’s recounted in Steven Biel’s new American Gothic: A Life of America ...