Mona Lisa
Culture
by Carol King | Tue, 03/05/2013 - 06:12
Scientific tests conducted by a Swiss art foundation reveal that a painting of the ‘Mona Lisa’ unveiled last year is possibly an early version of Leonard Da…
Culture
by Carol King | Sat, 01/19/2013 - 07:13
NASA scientists have beamed an image of the ‘Mona Lisa’ nearly 240,000 miles to a spacecraft at the moon, making a major breakthrough in laser communication.…
Culture
by Carol King | Tue, 01/15/2013 - 09:48
Experts believe they have discovered the location of the landscape shown in the ‘Mona Lisa’.Leonardo Da Vinci painted valleys, mountains, hills, a river and a…
Culture
by Carol King | Wed, 10/10/2012 - 04:58
Paris’ Louvre museum has rebuffed a request to allow the Mona Lisa to be displayed in Italy next year.Italian campaigners have collected more than 150,000…
Culture
by Gabi Logan | Tue, 08/14/2012 - 00:25
This summer, pickpocketing inside the Louvre Museum in Paris has reached epidemic proportions, with visitors to the "La Gioconda" (The Mona Lisa) as the most…
Culture
by ITALY | Tue, 02/07/2012 - 05:27
(Prado's copy on the left; original "La Gioconda" on the right)La Gioconda is definitely one of the most popular paintings worldwide and one of the works of…
Culture
by Magda Lauer | Mon, 01/23/2012 - 04:07
Say ’Leonardo’ and Da Vinci slips off the tongue. In every part of the civilised world this artist is recognised for his extraordinary talent and insight.
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Culture
by John Bensalhia | Tue, 12/27/2011 - 08:57
100 years ago, Vincenzo Peruggia stole The Mona Lisa from The Louvre. It's an audacious story that's ricocheting with conspiracy theories as to the background…
Culture
by Natalie Aldern | Wed, 07/13/2011 - 06:12
Paulina Borghese has been declared the most beautiful woman ever depicted in the history of Italian art.The Marilena Ferrari Foundation decided to examine the…
Culture
by Natalie Aldern | Fri, 06/24/2011 - 03:36
Officials in Florence have asked France for an exceptional loan, requesting to borrow the Mona Lisa for a 2013 exhibit at the Uffizi.Leonardo Da Vinci’s…
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