Mona Lisa's secrets are unlocked as Da Vinci's painting techniques are recreated. Her elusive smile is the perfect combination of art, science, optics and illusion – the greatest triumph of ...

So grab a cup of coffee, a tablet (the paper kind) and a good old-fashioned No. 2 pencil and get started. Your own Mona Lisa is just waiting to appear.

One critic referred to the Mona Lisa as the “Kim Kardashian of 16th-century Italian portraiture,” in a New York Times op-ed pleading for the painting to receive its own space.

And while we may never know with 100% certainty what the bridge is in the background, more than 10 million people visit the Louvre every year to see the Mona Lisa, making it the most famous ...

Researchers who used X-ray equipment on the 16th-century “Mona Lisa" has gained new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s painting techniques.