The fascinating process of painting restoration garnered attention on Tumblr where people were quick to demand the same thing to be done to Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous ‘Mona Lisa.’ ...

As part of the project, the "Mona Lisa" painting will be moved to a new spot. French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday a new restoration and expansion project for the world's most ...

The painting has yellowed from layers of varnish applied over the centuries, but the Louvre has resisted pressure to touch it up. The last real work on the Mona Lisa dates to the mid-1950s, when ...

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Mona Lisa's secret maybe was a baby, ... chief of the research department at the French Museums’ Center for Research and Restoration, ... “Mona Lisa: Inside the Painting,” published this month.

Perhaps Cotte’s more outlandish ideas help explain why, while his scans of Mona Lisa beautifully restored the painting, the technology has yet to shake the art world to its core.

Researchers studying 3-D images of the “Mona Lisa” say she was probably either pregnant or had just given birth when she sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th-century masterpiece.

The world's most famous painting originally included both brows and lashes, according to Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte, who says his 240-megapixel scans of the painting reveal traces of Mona Lisa ...

It shows warping in the poplar panel Leonardo used as his canvas, but the Mona Lisa smile is not threatened. "We didn't see any sign of paint lifting," Taylor said. "So for a 500-year-old painting ...

There’s every possibility that in painting the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci was recognizing the fashion trends of 16th-century Italy, which had women plucking or shaving their eyebrows.