A charcoal drawing housed in another art collection for more than 150 years may have been a sketch for the Mona Lisa, a French art expert says. The charcoal portrait of a nude woman, known as the ...

The Mona Lisa half-length portrait was painted by none other than Leonardo da Vinci in 1503. Learn about Monalisa’s real name ...

Mona Lisa has been displayed in the Salle des ... Yes, but only a handful of times in recent history. The painting last left France in 1974, when it was loaned to Russia and to Japan.

According to AFP, International Restitutions filed the lawsuit claiming that the "Mona Lisa" was wrongfully taken by King ...

who told the police of Peruggia's theft after authenticating the painting. Peruggia was operating under the assumption that France had stolen the Mona Lisa, one of the most iconic paintings of the ...

At the time of his arrival, France is on the verge of ... Vincenzo returns the Mona Lisa to Florence. In the intervening time the painting stayed in his wardrobe in Paris, and was only taken ...

A deranged young male visitor disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at Leonardo Da Vicini's Mona Lisa painting at ... The work, owned by France since the early 16th ...