The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

An exhibition at the Louvre ... art and fashion. In the show, there are some expected icons, such as the 19th-century French female writer George Sand, who, like Bonheur, preferred to wear men ...

From The London Chronicle. Every one who has "done" the Louvre will remember the low-pitched and some, what gloomy halls in which are stored the treasures of Egypt. Beneath those lie yet more ...

For the first time, the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a northern outpost of the historic museum, has set out to thoroughly analyze the two in an exhibition titled “The Art of Dressing: Dressing Like an ...

Of the artists who decorated the ceilings in Paris’ famed Palais du Louvre, the two best remembered ... is most representative of the modern trend in French art.” Contact us at [email protected] ...

At the Louvre’s Sculpture Casting Atelier, a separate team of artisans create moulages—molds—that replicate marble statues in plaster or resin. The Louvre doesn’t widely advertise the two ...

As with all famous art heists ... and may have been one of the men who helped fabricate the portrait's casing. "He had inside knowledge, shall we say, of how the Louvre's framing and security ...