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Mona Lisa

May 2024

  • Stuart Heritage

    Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage
  • The Mona Lisa

    Mystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims

April 2024

  • Lots of tourists using cameras and mobile phones take pictures of the Mona Lisa behind glass in the Louvre state room.

    A room of her own: Mona Lisa could be moved, says Louvre

  • You lookin’ at me? … Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

    Pass notes
    The world’s most disappointing masterpiece: why does the Mona Lisa leave so many people underwhelmed?

January 2024

  • Does it reference Leonardo’s plan to divert a river? … the Mona Lisa, a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo.

    A killer’s muse, a goddess, or actually a man? … 10 things you need to know about the Mona Lisa

    The protesters who threw pumpkin soup at the world’s most famous painting have made headlines around the world. But what is it that makes Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece so alluring?

  • Moment protesters throw soup at Mona Lisa in Paris – video

    Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters
  • Environmental activists hurl soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris

    Protesters throw soup at Mona Lisa in Paris

    Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

November 2023

  • Questionable … the Isleworth Mona Lisa (left) and the painting in the Louvre.

    The Isleworth Mona Lisa: have Leonardo da Vinci fans worshipped the wrong portrait for centuries?

    Some argue this painting depicts the artist’s subject in her younger years and is the first version of his iconic work. Others are less convinced

March 2023

  • The Ugly Duchess

    Mona Lisa v ‘the monstrous’: the grotesque, shocking side of Leonardo da Vinci

    The Italian master didn’t just paint the conventionally beautiful. As a new National Gallery show reveals, he was also drawn to irregular, diseased and aged faces – all captured with mind-bending accuracy and compassion

May 2022

  • A gallery employee tries to wipe off the cream smeared on the protective glass of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris

    Man arrested after Mona Lisa smeared with cake

  • Mona Lisa smeared in cake in apparent climate protest – video

April 2022

  • Natasha Solomons wearing a thick dark red coat, sitting in the garden of her home in Dorset, a yellow painted brick wall behind her

    Self and wellbeing
    Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell

    Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author

December 2020

  • FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2017 file photo, an employee poses with Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" on display at Christie's auction rooms in London. Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism announced Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, that the unveiling of the "Salvator Mundi" at the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been indefinitely postponed. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the world's most expensive painting

    Salvator Mundi was sold for a record $450m at auction in 2017 to an anonymous bidder. But the painting’s provenance as the work of Leonardo has been called into question

August 2020

  • Photo shows Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi on display at Christie's auction rooms in London

    Today in Focus
    Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the world's most expensive painting

    Salvator Mundi was sold for a record $450m at auction in 2017 to an anonymous bidder. But the painting’s provenance as the work of Leonardo has been called into question

March 2020

  • Mona Lisa at the Louvre

    Lockdown culture
    Smartify makes all museum audio tours free for rest of 2020

    Exhibitions that have been closed because of coronavirus will also launch on the app

November 2019

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    The Mona Lisa: even masterpieces should be knocked off their easels

    Rebecca Nicholson
    We’re far too reverential to artists and novelists

October 2019

  • a virtual reality Mona Lisa at the Louvre.

    More than Mona Lisa: Louvre's Leonardo da Vinci is a blockbuster with brains

    From a windmill-punk helicopter to a VR Mona Lisa that the artist himself would have loved, this show blows away his old-master reputation to present a relentlessly modern mind

August 2019

  • Louvre Museum, tourists using cameras, mobile phones over heads, taking pictures of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

    The Guardian view on museum culture: take your time

    Editorial: The crowds being hurried through galleries too often miss out on the experience they came for – but opportunities remain
  • People gather around the Mona Lisa painting on 4 January 1914 in Paris, France, after it was found following its theft in 1911.

    From the Guardian archive
    Archive, 23 August 1911: Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre

    An energetic search for the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is being made in all directions, but it has so far been fruitless
  • The Mona Lisa.

    Mona Lisa fans decry brief encounter with their idol in Paris

    Louvre visitors complain of being moved on in seconds after spending hours in queue
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