It is one of the most tantalising – and entertaining – puzzles in art, stretching from the Louvre to the Loire via, well, Norfolk. And our critic thinks he has just worked it out ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

Now she’s really got something to smile about. Mona Lisa is moving out of shared digs and into her own “special space” at the Louvre, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday — with ...

A French scientist has claimed that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the world's most recognised painting, conceals another portrait beneath it – of an entirely different woman. Pascal Cotte, who has ...

You may have seen the Mona Lisa on coffee mugs, phone cases, textbooks, and museum walls, but Leonardo da Vinci’s painting ...

Painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, the Mona Lisa is widely believed to portray Lisa Gherardini, a ...

French scientist Pascal Cotte has announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, Mona Lisa, was originally transferred from a cartoon. And while “cartoon” in this context just refers to a preliminary ...