I have a complicated relationship with the Mona Lisa. She is the best-known artwork in the world. Books, films, songs and poems celebrate and parody her. Amateur investigators have identified her as a ...

Stories circulated about virtuous mothers who refused to allow reproductions of the work to enter ... claiming that the Mona Lisa's smile was in fact a painting of his dead mother's smile. Pater's ...

When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris, the art critic heaved an enormous sigh of relief. Finally, he reflected ...