A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a massive renovation of the Louvre in Paris -- including a separate gallery for the museum's most famous holding, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...

Now she’s really got something to smile about. Mona Lisa is moving out of shared digs and into her own “special space” at the ...

Tourists hoping to spot the most famous painting in the world will likely have a much shorter wait: French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Louvre will undergo extensive ...

Whenever a French leader starts to have immortal longings—something that happens fairly frequently—there is a good likelihood that it will redound to the benefit of the Louvre. Louis XVI was ...

As part of a massive renovation, the Leonardo da Vinci portrait will get its own gallery space accessible from a separate ...

open image in gallery Visitors photographing the Mona Lisa by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci on display in a gallery at Louvre on May 19, 2021 (Getty Images) Des Cars, who spoke before Macron ...

What was the first work that made you fall in love with art? Seeing the "Mona Lisa" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1963, when I was a very young child, was mesmerising.

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic ...