"Soon, it would be fitted snugly into the false bottom of a trunk which had been specially built to match the panel's dimensions," wrote Darian Leader, author of Stealing the Mona Lisa: What art ...

The Mona Lisa is probably the most celebrated artwork ever made, visited by millions of tourists every year, constantly re-invented by film-makers, meme-makers and advertisers. But for art ...

The most famous work in the entire 40,000-year history of the visual arts, the Mona Lisa has become part of our collective unconscious. A cross between a cultural archetype and an icon of kitsch ...