The decision to isolate the Mona Lisa in a dedicated room at the Louvre is a response to a need for crowd management, but it ...

Pascal Le Segretain//Getty Images The Louvre, where the efforts to safeguard Paris’s most valuable art included taking 50 important pieces—including the Mona Lisa and the French crown jewels ...

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Iconic places and moments immortalized in photographs often remain that way in our memories. When we think of The Mona Lisa ...

Heading to the Louvre during your next trip to France? There are some important things to know before you go. In this article ...

When the painter died three years later, the Mona Lisa was passed onto Da Vinci's apprentice and then sold to the French King before it eventually wound up at the Louvre. The portrait was put on ...

For the Louvre, history ended in 1848—later masterpieces are in France’s other national museums—but its transformation ...

13 years after the Louvre announced it was teaming up with Nintendo to create an audio tour of the world-renowned Parisian ...

So Jaujard hatched a secret plan that was equal parts genius and gutsy: evacuate the Louvre. Not just a few pieces. Thousands. And that included Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa. On August ...

Never has a piece of art attracted more interest than a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci ...

When President Macron gave a press conference at the Louvre in January 2025, you can guess what painting he was standing next to. The Mona Lisa is probably the most celebrated artwork ever made ...

The Louvre Museum has confirmed that it will replace its New Nintendo 3DS audio guides with "a new system" later this year.