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.

The threat was written in English and sent through the museum’s online contact form at 3:47 a.m. on March 17. It read: “We ...

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece ' Mona Lisa,' on display at the Louvre Museum in France, is known as the most famous work of art in the world, but until the early 20th century, it was one of the ...

The Louvre, for example, chose to move Mona Lisa in the evening, after the museum had closed. Getty Images The Salle des États is the Louvre's most-visited room Then, the workers do a trial run ...

He enters the museum by a side-door in his white ... he takes his wife to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa. “One day,” he tells her, “the shingles on this roof will rot but my name will ...

The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 caused an international sensation. Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the world's most visited museum, hid in a cupboard overnight to take da ...

The Louvre itself has not yet released ... when the work of Da Vinci was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum, it was sprayed with paint, but the Mona Lisa was restored. Prior to that, in ...

Virtual bidding began a week ago for the famous 17th-century copy of the Mona Lisa whose owner had defended as authentic in the 1960s and even challenged the Louvre Museum to prove that the one on ...

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.

An Indian interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting, the Mona Lisa, has now turned Indian, thanks to this Indian ...