However, the Mona Lisa (real name ‘La Gioconda’ because the subject is thought to be Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo) was actually bought by the French king Francis I from Leonardo da Vinci.

A charcoal drawing housed in another art collection for more than 150 years may have been a sketch for the Mona Lisa, a French art expert says. The charcoal portrait of a nude woman, known as the ...

who alerts La Sûreté, the National Criminal Investigation ... Initial reaction in Paris to the Mona Lisa's disappearance is decidedly one of denial. Many believe it is only a bad joke.

La Gioconda [the Mona Lisa] is therefore a happy woman whose natural attribute is a smile. The Joker and the Mona Lisa share the same etymology: Jocus’ in Latin,” adds the museum statement.

is also known as La Gioconda to Italians and La Joconde to the French. Although she was already well known, it was a theft in 1911 that thrust the Mona Lisa firmly onto the world stage. An Italian ...

A man steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 His 84yearold daughter thought he did it for patriotic reasons A filmmaker spends more than 30 years trying to find ...

PARIS, May 30. /TASS/. A young environmental activist has thrown a cake at Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci's painting Gioconda (Mona Lisa) on display in the Louvre in Paris, the BFM TV channel ...

The mesmerizing gaze of its subject is thought to have inspired the exquisite, treacherous painting in Oscar Wilde’s "The ...

They don’t see his lonely heartbreak.” The actress then comes across the museum’s iconic Mona Lisa painting and starts waving at the Leonardo Da Vinci piece, before drawing the Joker’s ...

Lady Gaga stepped into the shoes of Harley Quinn as she teased her upcoming rock n' roll track, The Joker, in an Instagram video uploaded on Wednesday. The Poker Face hitmaker, 38 - who recently ...