“Think of the planet,” said the vandal, who claimed to be a climate activist and was disguised as a woman in a wheelchair.
Mona Lisa
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Do We Really Need a Mona Lisa Immersive Experience?
The only surprise perhaps is that this hasn’t come sooner given the extent to which the Louvre Museum expansively brands itself and its collection around the figure.
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People Want Jeff Bezos to Buy the Mona Lisa and Eat it
The viral petition has over 4,500 signatures.
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From da Vinci to Bosch, the 10 Most Googled Paintings of 2020
The list of artworks is based on data from 155 different countries.
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Mona Lisa, Revisited: History’s Symbol and Muse
With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, Naoto Nakagawa puts Leonardo’s mysteriously grinning subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments in ambitious, complex images.
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Experts Believe Leonardo Sketched the Mona Lisa Nude
Analysis of a drawing long attributed to Leonardo’s studio suggests the artist worked on at least part of it, and that it may have been a preparatory sketch for the Mona Lisa.
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Science Confirms Mona Lisa Is Happy
Ninety-seven percent of the participants in a study by researchers at the University of Freiburg said that the sitter in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait looks happy.
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In Defense of the World’s Ugliest Color, “Opaque Couché”
And the title of “World’s Ugliest Color” goes to: Pantone 448C!
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In Light of the Newest One, a Brief History of Mona Lisa Theories
It seems the Mona Lisa will never fail to inspire research and lead to discoveries that, though questionable, will never fail to grab headlines and cause every Leonardo expert in the world to weigh in on the matter and inevitably butt heads with each other.
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The Louvre Is Empty
One week after terrorists killed 129 people in Paris, the French capital remains quiet, including its museums.
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In Twin Leonardo Shows, a Portrait of Singapore Emerges
SINGAPORE — This is a tale of two Leonardos — or rather one possible Leonardo and one definite da Vinci.
