Art historians have long debated its landscape, speculating on the locations that could have inspired Leonardo but the geologist and Italian Renaissance ... painted the ‘Mona Lisa’ here ...

Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca ... in love with Italian Renaissance art and earned ...

The list is not arranged in any particular order. The Mona Lisa is among the Renaissance paintings that shaped art history. This half-length portrait painting has been described as the most ...

The innovative Renaissance painter ... distinctive recipe on the Mona Lisa’s base layer to prepare the panel of poplar wood, the team of scientists and art historians in France and Britain ...

Leonardo da Vinci began painting the “Mona Lisa” in 1503, during a period when Florence was a thriving center of arts and culture. The Renaissance was in full bloom, marked by a renewed ...

Mona Lisa may be smiling over this. A geologist and Renaissance art historian is claiming to have solved the centuries-old debate on the location of the Italian landscape behind Leonardo da Vinci ...

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art ... and inventive Italian Renaissance master may ...

The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered ...

isn't just great for the Mona Lisa. It could also allow the dozens of other artworks in the Salle des Etats — including masterworks of the Venetian Renaissance by the likes of Titian ...

Pandey’s Indian Mona Lisa speaks to a larger debate about generative AI and its role in artmaking. AI is comprised of two elements: algorithms and data. Artists who create AI-generated art say ...

According to Ann Pizzorusso, a geologist and Renaissance art scholar, da Vinci’s subject ... seeking information on the Mona Lisa’s possible settings, that Pizzorusso realized her conclusions ...