After Leonardo da Vinci’s death in 1519, the Mona Lisa entered the French royal collection and passed through the hands of several rulers, including King Francis I and later Louis XIV. The painting ...

No other painting is surrounded by as many myths and hypotheses as the famous Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. More than 500 years after the iconic oil painting was created, a researcher says she has ...

Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca. 1503–08). Who was the sitter? What does her smile mean? Is the ...

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

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is full of mysteries. Who was she? What is the meaning of the enigmatic expression on her face? What methods did Leonardo use while creating the painting? Does the ...

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, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been long studied and celebrated for its virtuosic composition and sfumato technique, its mysterious background and sitter, but two experimental psychologists in ...