Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps the world’s most famous painting. It’s also one of the world’s most mysterious. For centuries, art historians have analyzed the Mona Lisa, hoping ...

“We don’t know who (Mona Lisa) is, some believe she was a rich Tuscan merchant’s wife,” she said, referring to a popular historical theory that proposes the figure was based on Italian ...

Their wish? To achieve the repatriation of “stolen artefacts” that belong in Italy, most notably Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. A major difference is that the former, Vincenzo Peruggia, actually did ...

An Italian culture chief has called for the Mona Lisa to be returned to its country of origin after the director of the Louvre railed against the declining condition of Paris' famed museum.

told Italian news agency ANSA. “[The Mona Lisa] is the most important thing. It has to come back to Italy.” Restitution, of course, has become a hot-button issue in recent years—but it’s ...

An historic estate formerly occupied by relatives of the noblewoman depicted in the “Mona Lisa” — arguably the ... just west of Florence, Italy, the more than 700-year-old villa once ...

Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa from France and returned it to Italy, was born on Oct. 8, 1881 and died on Oct. 8, 1925. Though he was misguided as a historian and an umpire of ...

"This is the Mona Lisa bridge," Vinceti told CBS News, pointing at the one remaining arch of an ancient stone bridge in the town of Laterina, in Italy's mountainous region of Tuscany — Da Vinci ...