Mona Lisa

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Two Mona Lisas? Painting In Switzerland Declared The Earlier Version

by Carol King | Tue, 03/05/2013 - 06:12

Scientific tests conducted by a Swiss art foundation reveal that a painting of the ‘Mona Lisa’ unveiled last year is possibly an early version of Leonard Da…

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NASA Beams The Mona Lisa To The Moon

by Carol King | Sat, 01/19/2013 - 07:13

NASA scientists have beamed an image of the ‘Mona Lisa’ nearly 240,000 miles to a spacecraft at the moon, making a major breakthrough in laser communication.…

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Location Of Mona Lisa Background Identified

by Carol King | Tue, 01/15/2013 - 09:48

Experts believe they have discovered the location of the landscape shown in the ‘Mona Lisa’.Leonardo Da Vinci painted valleys, mountains, hills, a river and a…

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Louvre snubs Italian Request to Return Mona Lisa to Florence

by Carol King | Wed, 10/10/2012 - 04:58

Paris’ Louvre museum has rebuffed a request to allow the Mona Lisa to be displayed in Italy next year.Italian campaigners have collected more than 150,000…

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Mona Lisa... Pickpockets' Best Accomplice at the Louvre

by Gabi Logan | Tue, 08/14/2012 - 00:25

This summer, pickpocketing inside the Louvre Museum in Paris has reached epidemic proportions, with visitors to the "La Gioconda" (The Mona Lisa) as the most…

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Mona Lisa's Twin unveiled at the Prado Museum

by ITALY | Tue, 02/07/2012 - 05:27

(Prado's copy on the left; original "La Gioconda" on the right)La Gioconda is definitely one of the most popular paintings worldwide and one of the works of…

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Italy's Treasures: Leonardo Da Vinci

by Magda Lauer | Mon, 01/23/2012 - 04:07

Say ’Leonardo’ and Da Vinci slips off the tongue. In every part of the civilised world this artist is recognised for his extraordinary talent and insight.…

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La Gioconda. Art Crime Of The Century

by John Bensalhia | Tue, 12/27/2011 - 08:57

100 years ago, Vincenzo Peruggia stole The Mona Lisa from The Louvre. It's an audacious story that's ricocheting with conspiracy theories as to the background…

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Contest for the Most Beautiful Woman in Italian Art

by Natalie Aldern | Wed, 07/13/2011 - 06:12

Paulina Borghese has been declared the most beautiful woman ever depicted in the history of Italian art.The Marilena Ferrari Foundation decided to examine the…

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Florence Asks Louvre for Mona Lisa

by Natalie Aldern | Fri, 06/24/2011 - 03:36

Officials in Florence have asked France for an exceptional loan, requesting to borrow the Mona Lisa for a 2013 exhibit at the Uffizi.Leonardo Da Vinci’s…