The Mona Lisa has received increased attention this weekend – for all the wrong reasons. The masterpiece has been covered in soup by climate activists at the Louvre in Paris, France this morning ...

it is widely known as the Mona Lisa Hekking after ex-owner Raymond Hekking. Hekking, who died in 1977, cast doubt on the authenticity of the original masterpiece now at the Louvre museum.

Hung up on one of the walls of Louvre, ‘Mona Lisa’ has been subject to vandalism, theft, robbery, criticism, and much more, but it continues to amaze its lovers even today, about 500 years later.

Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard about the time the Mona Lisa actually vanished from the Louvre in Paris for nearly two and a half years.

Visiting the Louvre museum for the first time is a time-honored right of passage for any trip to Paris, France. And seeing the Mona Lisa tops the bucket list of many travel and art lovers.

Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism ...

In 1910, Vincenzo begins working at glassworks company Gobier, which was busy fitting glass covers on 16,000 paintings at the Louvre to protect them from vandalism. A worker hanging the Mona Lisa ...

Instead Professor Kemp says Leonardo probably never handed the portrait over to his original client ... shows that it [the Louvre Mona Lisa] underwent an evolution, as all Leonardo's pictures ...

PARIS, May 30. /TASS/. A young environmental activist has thrown a cake at Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci's painting Gioconda (Mona Lisa) on display in the Louvre in Paris, the BFM TV channel ...