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Exploring the mysteries of the Louvre

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France's President Emmanuel Macron announced that the historic Louvre Museum will be renovated and expanded in a major overhaul.
Updated on Apr 25, 2025 10:10 AM IST

Maha Kumbh sensation Monalisa on film debut: Main sochti thi kab heroine banung

Maha Kumbh viral girl Monalisa has signed Sanoj Mishra's film The Diary of Manipur opposite Rajkummar Rao’s brother Amit Rao
Updated on Feb 01, 2025 10:11 PM IST

Maha Kumbh fame Monalisa's Bollywood debut opposite Rajkummar Rao's brother

Maha Kumbh viral girl Monalisa's Bollywood debut will be opposite actor Rajkummar Rao's brother Amit Rao in Sanoj Mishra's film The Diary of Manipur
Updated on Jan 31, 2025 12:35 PM IST

Macron announces renovation of Louvre museum, Mona Lisa to get ‘special space’

France's President Emmanuel Macron announced that the historic Louvre Museum will be renovated and expanded in a major overhaul.
Published on Jan 28, 2025 10:53 PM IST

Year-ender 2024: What all in the year made the art world go bananas!

Artist Anish Kapoor, an artwork titled Comedian, and animal series by street artist Banksy are some of the topics that got much talked about in the art world in 2024.
Updated on Dec 31, 2024 09:18 AM IST

DU student reimagines Mona Lisa with a traditional Indian twist using AI tools

A Delhi student used AI to create an Indian version of the Mona Lisa, sparking online creativity.
Updated on Dec 01, 2024 12:26 PM IST

Unique bucket list ideas beyond the Mona Lisa and Everest

Instead of ticking off popular bucket list items, focus on meaningful travel experiences that enrich and change you.
Published on Aug 20, 2024 12:51 PM IST

Watch: Climate activists throw soup at glass-protected Mona Lisa painting

Climate activists throw soup at Mona Lisa painting
Published on Jan 28, 2024 05:50 PM IST

The art of the steal: History’s greatest museum thefts

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The theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as illustrated by Achille Beltrame for the Italian weekly La Domenica del Corriere, in 1911. (The real painting is, of course, significantly smaller.) (Getty Images)
Updated on Nov 11, 2023 07:39 PM IST

Scientists winkle a secret from the Mona Lisa about how the painting was made

The oil-paint recipe that Leonardo used as his base layer to prepare the panel of poplar wood appears to have been different for the “Mona Lisa," with its own distinctive chemical signature, the team of scientists and art historians in France and Britain discovered.
Published on Oct 11, 2023 06:12 PM IST

How Mona Lisa keeps a smile ?  

The celebrated Mona Lisa painting is kept at Louvre Museum in Paris.
Updated on Aug 01, 2022 11:46 AM IST

Cholita Mona Lisa: Bolivian artist gives famed portrait indigenous makeover

Claudia Callizaya, 32, a Bolivian painter known as Claudina, works on cholita-style Mona Lisa painting, at the El Alto Public University, in El Alto, Bolivia May 21, 2022. Picture taken May 21, 2022. 
Published on Jun 02, 2022 04:14 PM IST

Mona Lisa copy from 1600 sells for USD 242,634 in Paris auction

'Mona Lisa' copy from 1600 sells for USD 242,634 in Paris auction
Published on Nov 10, 2021 10:28 AM IST

Mona Lisa copy to go under hammer in Paris auction, will fetch USD 230,000

Mona Lisa copy to go under hammer in Paris auction, will fetch USD 230,000
Updated on Nov 06, 2021 07:25 AM IST

'Fake' Mona Lisa sells for USD 3.4 million

A woman looks at the Hekking "Mona Lisa", a reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, painted on canvas by an unknown artist from the 17th century and up for an online sale at Christie’s auction house in Paris, France.
Published on Jun 19, 2021 03:29 PM IST

The Hekking Mona Lisa to go on sale at Christie’s auction house in Paris

The Hekking Mona Lisa to go on sale at Christie’s auction house in Paris
Updated on Jun 07, 2021 06:10 PM IST

Artist creates isolation art with lentils, socks and cabbage

A view shows the reconstitution of "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch made of lentils, buckwheat, beans and other food items in Moscow, Russia.
Updated on Apr 12, 2020 09:33 PM IST

Leonardo da Vinci show smashes Louvre’s all-time record

The Mona Lisa, the most famous of the Tuscan’s paintings, was conspicuously absent from the show.
Updated on Feb 26, 2020 04:18 PM IST

An auction with a twist: Mona Lisa made of Rubik’s Cubes goes on sale

Mona Lisa made of Rubik’s Cubes goes on sale.
Updated on Feb 04, 2020 04:25 PM IST

Techilicious by Rajiv Makhni: Instagram disasters

With everyone posting similar pictures, it seems we all live the same lives on Insta!
Published on Jul 20, 2019 07:51 PM IST

Mona Lisa’s smile not genuine, says study

For the study, published in the journal Cortex, researchers asked 42 people to judge which of the six basic emotions were expressed by two chimeric images - a mirror image of just one side -- of the left and right sides of Mona Lisa’s smile.
Updated on Jun 06, 2019 03:02 PM IST

Scientists ‘paint’ microscopic Mona Lisa on quantum canvas

The resulting image is barely visible to the human eye, with each pixel representing only about 50 atoms.
Published on May 22, 2019 03:48 PM IST

Drinks with Mona Lisa: A special night at the museum

Daniela Molinari dreamed of offering a drink to the famous Mona Lisa. On Tuesday night she enjoyed a very special night at Louvre in Paris.
Updated on May 03, 2019 03:32 PM IST

A night at the museum: Airbnb and Musée du Louvre are making the art lover’s dream come true

The Louvre’s iconic glass Pyramid will be specially designed to celebrate the building’s 30th anniversary.
Updated on Apr 05, 2019 07:08 PM IST

The Stan Lee legacy: A tribute to the Marvel man

Stan Lee’s superheroes became wildly successful as film franchises over the last two decades. Successive generations have identified with the frailties and flaws of Spider-Man, The Hulk, and even Iron Man; and fallen for the charms of Thor. As for Black Panther, it was a new one to many, but still became one of the highest-grossing films of 2018.
Updated on Nov 21, 2018 06:11 PM IST

Louvre hosts first retrospective of French master Delacroix in half a century. See pics

A woman looks at the painting Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement at the exhibition "Delacroix (1798-1863)".
Updated on Mar 28, 2018 11:15 AM IST