Leonardo da Vinci spends 14 years working on the Mona Lisa, the culmination of all his knowledge. Toward the end of his life, Leonardo da Vinci finally finds the perfect patron – the King of France – ...

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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, the creator of the famous Mona Lisa, was an Italian painter and sculptor. This raises the question of why ...

Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This exhibit has been extended through Sunday, April 27, according to the official website, southfloridapbs.org/davinci. Ever wondered what the ...

From high art to full-blown kitsch, imitations of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Robert Hue, chairman of the French Communist Party, views a mustached Mona Lisa by Dadaist painter Marcel Duchamp; it ...

Art experts may have solved a riddle that has been baffling them for years: whether a drawing of a nude woman, bearing a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa, is a Leonardo da Vinci original.

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