The world’s most visited art museum is dealing with an influx of unwelcome visitors.
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‘Second’ Mona Lisa Deemed Authentic
A Swiss-based art foundation says tests on the Isleworth Mona Lisa support claims that it’s an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait hanging in the Louvre in Paris.
Priceless 1830 Delacroix Painting Vandalized in Possible ’9/11 Truth’ Attack
A famous 183-year-old French painting of a flag-bearing woman leading fighters across the bodies of the fallen has been defaced by a museum-goer with a black marker at a recently launched adjunct to the Louvre museum in northern France.
Star Wars Exhibit Comes to the Louvre
If you find it challenging getting your 10-year-old excited about early European art or the Cubist manifesto, you’re in luck. Through March 17, the Louvre is sharing its hallowed halls with a rather unlikely special exhibit, …
The World’s Most-Visited Museums
Mais oui! The Louvre in Paris tops the list of the busiest museums on Earth.
Mona Lisa Heist: Money, Not Country, Was the Motivation
He said he did it as an act of patriotism. But a new documentary reveals that the man who swiped the Mona Lisa from the Louvre exactly a century ago was really motivated by — you guessed it — money.
Long-Lost Leonardo Da Vinci Painting to Be Unveiled
A previously lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci has been identified and restored. It is to be displayed at the London National Gallery, along with other works, for the Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan exhibition, …
Mr. Mona Lisa: Did a Male Model Inspire Da Vinci?
Italian researchers believe they’ve solved the mystery of the Mona Lisa model … the she, was a he.
Da Vinci Code Sequel? Hidden Numbers and Letters Found in the Mona Lisa
Never before seen symbols were found in the eyes of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa! Dan Brown just wet himself.
