Mona Lisa News & Updates

Microsoft releases ‘creepy’ video of the Mona Lisa rapping: ‘If only Da Vinci could witness this’

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Apr 22, 2024 • New York Post

Unthinkable! Mona Lisa vanishes from Louvre! Museum blind for a full day!

Imagine this. On a Tuesday morning, 22 August 1911, an artist set up his easel in the hushed halls o...

Aug 25, 2026 • Facebook on MSN

Mona Lisa who ate everything she wanted

Swollen bodies bursting at the seams, coy expressions, smooth contours, and bright, vivid colors are...

Aug 24, 2026 • The Chosun Ilbo on MSN

Mona Lisa Cake Attacker Explains Why He Did It

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May 30, 2022 • Newsweek

How Mona Lisa masterpiece (gold frame and all) becomes dessert in 'Is It Cake, Too?'

Art historians have insisted there was no way to improve on Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece the Mo...

Jun 30, 2023 • USA Today

In 1911, Mona Lisa was stolen in one of history’s most bizarre heists: The thief hid it under his clothes and nobody realised it was gone for more than a day

In 1911, an Italian worker named Vincenzo Peruggia famously stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Thi...

Aug 24, 2026 • The Economic Times

‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ Trailer: Kate Hudson Takes In a Mental Institute Escapee With Superpowers

A first trailer has been revealed for the upcoming film "Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon," a neon-drenc...

Aug 23, 2022 • Yahoo

No more roommates for Mona Lisa! Iconic painting to get own gallery at the Louvre — and Americans will help foot the bill

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a massive renovation of the Louvre in Paris -- including ...

Jan 29, 2025 • New York Post

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Mar 05, 2018 • Moneycontrol

An Early Copy of the ‘Mona Lisa’ Is Coming Up for Auction. Here’s What You Need to Know About It

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa might just be the singularly most famous painting in the world. Perh...

Nov 03, 2021 • Artnet

Copying the Mona Lisa

From high art to full-blown kitsch, imitations of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece An authenticated...

Feb 01, 2012 • Time

Stolen: How the Mona Lisa Became the World’s Most Famous Painting

After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown here is the tra...

Jun 15, 2011 • Smithsonian Magazine

Mona Lisa’s Other Secret—Where the Portrait Was Painted—May Have Been Solved by an Art Historian Using Drone Imagery

It may well be the best known painting of all time, but mysteries still lurk behind the famous Mona ...

May 15, 2023 • Artnet

Scientists pry a secret from the 'Mona Lisa' about how Leonardo painted the masterpiece

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a t...

Oct 11, 2023 • Phys.org

The Mona Lisa was a minor painting until somebody stole it in 1911, and the empty wall made it the most famous picture on Earth

The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting on the planet by a distance ......

Aug 10, 2026 • Travel and Tannins on MSN

The Mona Lisa Is on the Front Lines as the Louvre Reopens With Some New Safety Measures Against Disease

In the Louvre, the Mona Lisa is flanked by guards who usually help keep the crowds moving through th...

Mar 05, 2020 • Artnet

Mona Lisa’s got nothing on the Cleveland Museum of Art, free and right in our backyard: Justice B. Hill

Let’s not quibble about that. Let’s just agree Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait isn’t going to o...

Jul 04, 2024 • Cleveland.com

Hang this photo of Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama, teammates with Mona Lisa in Louvre

Victor Wembanyama and his Spurs teammates posed in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in a photo t...

Aug 05, 2026 • ClutchPoints on MSN

Who was the Mona Lisa in real life? Story behind Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting

Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. T...

Jul 12, 2022 • New York Post

Historian claims to have located mystery ‘Mona Lisa’ bridge

Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is one of the best-known artworks in the world, famous for its...

May 04, 2023 • CNN

Cats visit Mona Lisa and become part of the art

A visit to see the Mona Lisa takes an unexpected turn when these cats somehow become part of the mas...

Aug 14, 2026 • CatPusic on MSN

After Her Trip to Another Gallery Sowed Chaos, Mona Lisa Is Back in Her Home at the Louvre—Only It’s Gotten a Complete Makeover

The Mona Lisa‘s home has gotten a makeover. The Louvre’s most famous painting was reinstalled in...

Oct 07, 2019 • Artnet

Louvre Makes Major ‘Mona Lisa’ Announcement

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Jan 28, 2025 • Newsweek

In 2007, the woman believed to be the Mona Lisa was traced to her final resting place in Italy

Lisa Gherardini, the woman long believed to be the real Mona Lisa, is back in the spotlight after hi...

Aug 02, 2026 • The Economic Times on MSN

Italy Is ‘Ready to Welcome’ the Mona Lisa Amid Louvre Infrastructure Concerns

An Italian official in Milan has called for France’s Louvre Museum to temporarily return Leonardo ...

Jan 27, 2025 • Artnet

Mona Lisa Smile

In Mona Lisa Smile, set in 1953, Julia Roberts plays Katherine Watson, an art-history professor from...

Mar 08, 2020 • New York Magazine

Why Does the Louvre Want to Give the Mona Lisa Her Own Room?

The world’s most famous artwork may move to a new underground lair. “I place it at the heart of ...

Apr 29, 2024 • Artnet

A man in a wig was detained after throwing a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa

A man who seems to have been disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the ...

May 30, 2022 • NPR

The Mystery of the Mona Lisa

Is there a secret meaning behind the Mona Lisa's famously ambiguous smile?...

Jul 23, 2026 • BBC

The Gray Market: Why Selling the Mona Lisa Would Be a Ridiculous Way to Try to Dig France Out of Massive Debt (and Other Insights)

Every Monday morning, Artnet News brings you The Gray Market. The column decodes important stories f...

May 24, 2020 • Artnet