Louvre Museum in Paris closed unexpectedly because of a staff strike. Thousands of tourists were left outside. Workers ...

The world's most visited museum, the Louvre, closes its doors as staff strike due to overtourism concerns, highlighting the Mona Lisa display, which attracts 20,000 visitors daily.

Violetta Urmana had not sung at the Metropolitan Opera since 2017.

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century Florence, Italy. The work is hailed as an artistic masterpiece for its ...

So Peruggia was alone with the Mona Lisa. (suspenseful music) - "I wasn't sure that I wanted to take La Gioconda. "There was Titian, Raphael, Correggio, Giorgione. "But I made my choice at the ...

La Gioconda [the Mona Lisa] is therefore a happy woman whose natural attribute is a smile. The Joker and the Mona Lisa share the same etymology: Jocus’ in Latin,” adds the museum statement.

Next to Franklin Roosevelt’s and the Cheshire Cat’s, perhaps the most famous smile in the world is that on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Gioconda, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris.

In the pantheon of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stands as an unrivalled icon. This half-length portrait is more than just an artistic masterpiece; it embodies the allure of an ...

The intrigue of the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, isn’t solely due to Leonardo’s revolutionary painting techniques. It’s also because the identity of the subject is unconfirmed to ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting "Mona Lisa" is about to be moved, in order to give La Gioconda more space. And appease visitors. Indeed, with Louvre visitors getting an average of 50 seconds to ...

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 ...