Mona Lisa Location Mona Lisa Bridge Lecco The small Italian town of Lecco, in the Lombardy region, may be the real-life setting depicted in the background of the Mona Lisa, if new research is correct.

The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti asked his contemporaries to consider that painting is grounded in mathematics, ...

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As you make your way around the tree-covered, curved driveway toward the three-story brick home at the end of the circle ...

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Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, believed was Flemish.

Mona Lisa's mysterious background decrypted by art-loving geologist “When I came to Lecco, I realized he had painted the 'Mona Lisa' here,” said Renaissance specialist Ann Pizzorusso.