A leaked memo from a Louvre director has sparked calls from an Italian official to return the Mona Lisa to Italy. As ...

The Mona Lisa has been a resident of the Louvre Museum in Paris for centuries, but there is a new push by some in Italy for ...

An Italian official has called for France’s Louvre Museum to temporarily return the Mona Lisa as the museum faces concerns of ...

Francesca Caruso, the regional assessor for culture in Italy’s Lombardy region, first suggested the possibility of bringing the painting back to Milan for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

The leaked memo said the Louvre suffered from “proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor ...

It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...

President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to alleviate crowds at the Paris museum and to charge higher fees for visitors from ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre ...