A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in ...

making the still-life painting feel personal and alive, even though it’s centuries old." But even by the early 20th century, according to historian Donald Sassoon, Mona Lisa was still "just a ...

That will make the visit simpler for those who want to see the painting and ease the life of other visitors in the rest of the museum, he said. The “Mona Lisa” is now being shown behind ...