"When I came to Lecco. I realized he had painted the Mona Lisa here." For centuries, art historians have been trying to ...
Peruggia maintained that the painting never should have left Italy and he was right to bring it back, but the legal system disagreed; he spent six months in prison, and the Mona Lisa said ...
A worker hanging the Mona Lisa When Vincenzo starts work at the Louvre, he is immediately struck by just how many Italian paintings there are. Many of them - as he finds out – were taken from ...
(Robert Valladares/Courtesy) An “extraordinary encounter” with the “Mona Lisa,” one of the most ... set against a backdrop of Renaissance Italy, features da Vinci’s personal notebooks ...