And that’s not the Mona Lisa’s only mystery. The painting has many unanswered questions that have kept researchers investigating the bewildering woman for centuries. The issue of who painted ...

Archives nationales, France, 20144792/252 The Mona Lisa, or La Joconde as it is known in France, was among the works that Valland helped keep safe during the World War II invasion of Paris.

Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the “Mona Lisa,” an academic believes she has unraveled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world’s most famous works of art.

If the other paintings in the room that houses the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris could talk, they might be whispering "good riddance!" to one another right now. That's owing to French ...