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The setup of Mona Lisa exhibit in the Louvre. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci has long been attracting vandals and is currently one of the best-protected artworks. On 30 December 1956, a young Bolivian man named Ugo Ungaza Villegas threw a rock at the painting; this resulted in the loss of a speck of pigment near the left elbow, which was later ...
The Mona Lisa (/ ˌ m oʊ n ə ˈ l iː s ə / MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: la Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
The Mona Lisa in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, 1913. Museum director Giovanni Poggi (right) inspects the painting. In 1911, Peruggia perpetrated what has been described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century.
Two demonstrators hurled soup at Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in Paris, though the painting was protected from damage by its glass casing.
T wo environmental activists threw soup on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday in a protest for sustainable food and social security, the group behind ...
An Italian historian believes he's solved one of the biggest mysteries of Leonardo's famous Mona Lisa painting: the location of the bridge in the backdrop.
1989 Mao portrait vandalism incident; Memorial of Rebirth; Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism; Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists; Memorial to the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement; Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe; Memorial to the Victims of Communism; Mona Lisa; Monument of Gratitude to France
PARIS (AP) — The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight ...