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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While there have been several studies stating that this occurs with the Mona Lisa (aka La Gioconda), the authors claim those studies failed to cite convincing evidence of the phenomenon.

The stunning find of what the Prado now says is probably the earliest known copy of La Gioconda will give art lovers and experts an idea of what the "Mona Lisa" looked like back in the 16th ...

The critic E.K. Chambers diagnosed melancholia in a photo of Amy Levy, that he found reminiscent of the Mona Lisa, adding: “Leonardo’s ironically named La Gioconda… is curiously at home ...