When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris, the art ...

curator of 16th-century Italian art at the Louvre, told Reuters. What is it about the Mona Lisa that gets people to become thieves, vandals, and destroyers of perfectly good teacups? It's clear ...

A worker hanging the Mona Lisa When Vincenzo starts work at the Louvre, he is immediately struck by just how many Italian paintings there are. Many of them - as he finds out – were taken from ...

The Mona Lisa was being slowly injected with a dose ... “Lady Lisa”, as Pater memorably nicknamed her, turned from an Italian noblewoman into a dangerously deathly femme-fatale.