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 ...

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

But while politicians and generals braced for impact, one Frenchman had a completely different kind of emergency on his hands: how to save the Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile from vanishing forever.

Many artists have tried to recreate the Mona Lisa with their own twists, and most recently, some Genshin Impact players from China made their version of the iconic painting using nothing but ...

For blowing your nose" Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty French President Emmanuel Macron is shutting down a conspiracy theory that he snuck a bag of cocaine with him when he and ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accused French President Emmanuel Macron of supporting a “murderous Islamist terrorist organisation” after Macron condemned Israel's ...

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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.

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 ...