It's challenging to imagine a time when the Mona Lisa wasn't a household name. The portrait is now iconic — and parodied. She's been depicted in Legos, driving a convertible, as Princess Leia. But ...

When it was stolen in 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting had been missing from the Louvre for more than 24 hours before anybody noticed. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa on view at the Louvre Museum in ...

The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer was our January book for our online book club. Historical fiction, it was a mystery centered around a young art professor, Luke, who is on a quest to find out ...

It is called the Valfierno myth: A 1932 Saturday Evening Post article told the story of a man who called himself the Marques Eduardo de Valfierno and who claimed to have masterminded the 1911 theft of ...

The Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre in 1911, stolen in broad daylight, only to be recovered in Italy and returned to Paris on Dec. 31, 1913. Members of the cast and behind-the-scene team of ...

After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown here is the transfer of the painting from the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction to France. Bettmann / Corbis ...

A TikTok that made a joke about the Mona Lisa being stolen has gone viral, causing confusion among many viewers who presumed it to be true. The video, which was posted by a user named @narvanator, ...

Historian Eric Anceau has termed the Louvre jewel heist the most serious and spectacular, even surpassing the theft of Mona Lisa in 1911. Speaking with French daily newspaper Le Monde, the historian ...