when an artist named Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo wrote that “the two most beautiful and important portraits by Leonardo are the ‘Mona Lisa’ and the ‘Gioconda.’” The photo on the right is ...

also known as Mona Lisa, was Leonardo da Vinci's "La Gioconda." "I challenge anyone to explain to me the need for the most famous architect of his time, a man of success and considerable fortune ...

But La Gioconda’s gaze tilts right, researchers found. “With the Mona Lisa, of all paintings, we didn’t get this impression,” Loth added. For the study, 24 people looked at the Mona Lisa ...

Indeed, Leonardo da Vinci’s world-renowned painting, also known as “La Gioconda,” inspired the name of a scientific phenomenon: the Mona Lisa effect, or the perception that the subject of an ...

The Mona Lisa or La Giaconda is arguably one of the most famous paintings in the world for a combination of reasons: it was one of the best-kept works of the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci ...

A man smeared cake across the famous painting at the weekend. Getty Images The Mona Lisa, known as La Gioconda by Italians and La Joconde by the French, is thought to be a depiction of Lisa ...

An art critic for The New York Times argued on Wednesday that "it's time to take down" the iconic Mona Lisa ... interesting Lisa Gherardini, better known (after her husband) as La Gioconda ...

Stated crudely, the Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the ... For nigh on half a millennium, La Gioconda — or the 'jovial one,' as the painting was ironically named by Vasari — with ...

Visitors to the Louvre have long reported that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa (aka La Gioconda), has eyes that seem to follow one around the room.

The Mona Lisa was evacuated throughout both world wars ... a man smeared cake on the protective glass surrounding La Gioconda. The man responsible entered the Louvre in a wheelchair, dressed ...