Leonardo fingerprint reveals $150 million artwork

Mona Lisa has something new to smile about.

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Russian tourist hurls mug at Mona Lisa in Louvre

The Louvre Museum says a Russian visitor hurled an empty terra cotta mug at the Mona Lisa.

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Dada and surrealist masterpieces make US stop

Mona Lisa with a mustache and goatee. A white porcelain urinal.

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Cruise ship evacuated off Latvian coast

Latvia's coast guard on Monday removed more than 650 people from a stranded cruise ship after tugboats failed to pull the luxury liner off an underwater sand bank in the Baltic Sea.

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Researchers Identify Model for Mona Lisa

A researcher has uncovered evidence that apparently confirms the identity of the woman behind the Mona Lisa's iconic smile, Germany's University of Heidelberg says.

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Inventor: Scans Reveal Mona Lisa Secrets

For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes.

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Scan Hints Mona Lisa Pregnant for Pose

Maybe they should call it the "Mama Lisa." Researchers studying 3-D images of the "Mona Lisa" say she was probably either pregnant or had just given birth when she sat for Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century masterpiece. The clue was something she wore.

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In Japan, Mona Lisa's Voice Finally Heard

The Mona Lisa may hide many secrets behind her enigmatic smile, but the sound of her voice may no longer be one of them, thanks to the work of a Japanese forensics expert.

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The Mona Lisa originally had eyebrows, according to a French art expert who has analysed Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece with a special camera.

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A Russian tourist sparked a security alert when she threw a mug at the Mona Lisa, the world's best-known painting, officials at Louvre Museum in Paris have revealed.

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A Russian woman frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality hurled a ceramic cup at the Mona Lisa but did not damage Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum said on Tuesday.

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If you were a famous work of art, which one would you be?

I would have to be the Mona Lisa, without doubt.

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Topless Mona Lisa-like Painting Uncovered!

The woman in the recently unearthed painting has definite parallels with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, Mona Lisa. A private library housed it for nearly a century but the painting had remained hidden within the wooden sidewalls of its precincts.

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Leonardo da Vinci, in a Renaissance version of Mad Magazine, may have painted his famous Mona Lisa in a number of ways, including nude. Now, a painting has surfaced that looks much like the original, sparking debate over just how far the master took his iconic painting.

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Now they have their own Firefighter Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) dressed into Russian army uniform depicted on the front of fire dept of Grodno city. She is surrounded by Russian firefighters and the look on her face gives out that she enjoys her new assignment.

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In a small room, just feet away from Da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, hangs a grey, tear-streaked rendering of the famed noblewoman.

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A Dum Dum candy pop is sweet and delicious. But is it art? Probably not, but that isn't stopping Spangler Candy Co. from pairing its classic lollipop with two of the art world's most famous images.

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The new work by Franco-Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming is the centrepiece of an exhibition entitled "The Funeral of Mona Lisa," part of the Louvre's efforts to bring contemporary art face to face with the masterpieces of old.

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Mona Lisa To Date, Today

For one moment, I have to close my eyes to erase the over-exploited, lame reproductions and distortions Mona Lisa suffered for over a century. I need to make extra effort to dodge the moustache of Marcel Duchamp. I need silence. I need a little bit of light as well.

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When it comes to famous images the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most recognized in the world.

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Score another one for Occam's razor: the sitter for the Mona Lisa was indeed named Lisa, according to German researchers. Lisa del Giocondo, to be exact. From Reuters:

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German researcher Veit Probst from Heidelberg University claims he has found proof of the identity of Mona Lisa. Veit Probst stated he found a book that belonged to a friend of da Vinci, Agostino Vespucci.

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Second only to the mystery of her enigmatic smile is another question that has long fascinated art experts: what happened to Mona Lisa's eyebrows? A Parisian engineer who has dedicated 3,000 hours to examining Leonardo Da Vinci's famous portrait now claims to have the answer.

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The "Mona Lisa" has long been shrouded in mystery, including one long-standing question about the famous lady: What happened to her eyebrows and eyelashes?

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The "Mona Lisa" has long been shrouded in mystery, including one long-standing question about the famous lady: What happened to her eyebrows and eyelashes? A French engineer and inventor examined the famous painting with a camera of his own design.

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Leonardo da Vinci did not mix colors on a palette, but directly on the canvas he was painting, Italian researchers have found.

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Unless you've been hiding under a pop-culture resistant rock, you've heard about the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, which raised a number of previously-unconsidered questions about the world's greatest inventor, his work, and his connection to Christianity. Today, an even less l …

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Countless visual images discovered within Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and drawings. Optical illusions and what is believed to be a "Hologram Effect" created by artist/inventor Leonardo da Vinci, revealing gorillas and snakes on The Mona Lisa.

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Isn't it time we admitted that art is hell? You go to one of the world's great art exhibits looking forward to seeing human creation at its most beautiful and instead you experience human nature at its ugliest.

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The woman behind Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting may be buried near a now derelict building in the heart of Florence, according to archival documents.

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From the article: Not even Dan Brown and his Da Vinci codebreakers dared tackle the mystery of Mona Lisa's smile. But Nicu Sebe, a computer vision researcher at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, did.

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Mona Lisa, the mysterious woman immortalized in Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece, had just given birth to her second son when she sat for the painting, a French art expert said on Tuesday.

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