A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic ...

A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...

The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...

The Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated gallery inside the Louvre Museum which is due to undergo major renovations and ...

Rising prices, crowds and failing facilities have turned the world’s greatest art museum into a ‘physical ordeal’. So what’s ...

The works will be carried out in parallel with the museum's ongoing activities to avoid closure and are expected to be completed by 2031 at the latest. Macron stressed that the project is "realistic ...

Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.

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Brits could soon pay more to enter the Louvre to see Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, as French president Emmanuel ...

As French President Emmanuel Macron announces that the Mona Lisa will move into a new, dedicated room inside the Louvre, we ...

It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...

Discover the Louvre's ambitious renovation plan to enhance visitor experience and address maintenance issues by 2031.