Mona Lisa

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Emmanuel Macron’s got a point: Why shouldn’t we charge tourists to see our treasures? Catherine Bennett
The Louvre’s proposed two-tier fees are a better way to fund museums than iffy corporate sponsorship deals

Catherine Bennett

02, Feb, 2025 @7:00 AM

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Louvre’s decision to move Mona Lisa is a misguided act of snobbery
Crowds give life to the Paris museum and the painting is a silent, compelling mystery at the heart of the hubbub

Jonathan Jones

28, Jan, 2025 @7:57 PM

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Mona Lisa to be placed in private room as part of sweeping Louvre renovation
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, also announced a ‘new grand entrance’, funded by the museum’s own resources

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

28, Jan, 2025 @5:09 PM

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Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo: who is the greatest of the Renaissance masters?
Ahead of a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, writers make a case for each of Renaissance art’s big three, from the secretive genius of Leonardo to Raphael’s beguiling brilliance and the space-filling majesty of Michelangelo

Charles Nicholl, Caroline Campbell and Eliza Goodpasture

09, Nov, 2024 @11:55 AM

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Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble | Stuart Heritage
‘Paintings are still around, people still go to museums,’ the actor has said, trying to sound positive about the future of cinema. But if you crunch the numbers, this isn’t reassuring

Stuart Heritage

23, May, 2024 @11:28 AM

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Mystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims
Ann Pizzorusso says she has tracked down the background landscape of the world’s most famous painting

Dalya Alberge

11, May, 2024 @10:00 AM

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The world’s most disappointing masterpiece: why does the Mona Lisa leave so many people underwhelmed?
Online, Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting is the subject of thousands of negative reviews – on display at the Louvre, it is deluged with visitors. Is the problem the artwork or the stressful experience of seeing it?

24, Apr, 2024 @3:36 PM

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A killer’s muse, a goddess, or actually a man? … 10 things you need to know about the Mona Lisa
The protesters who threw pumpkin soup at the world’s most famous painting have made headlines around the world. But what is it that makes Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece so alluring?

Jonathan Jones

29, Jan, 2024 @2:46 PM

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Protesters throw soup at Mona Lisa in Paris
Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

Kate Connolly in Berlin

28, Jan, 2024 @12:15 PM

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The Isleworth Mona Lisa: have Leonardo da Vinci fans worshipped the wrong portrait for centuries?
Some argue this painting depicts the artist’s subject in her younger years and is the first version of his iconic work. Others are less convinced

Jonathan Jones

29, Nov, 2023 @10:00 AM

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Mona Lisa V ‘the monstrous’: the grotesque, shocking side of Leonardo da Vinci
The Italian master didn’t just paint the conventionally beautiful. As a new National Gallery show reveals, he was also drawn to irregular, diseased and aged faces – all captured with mind-bending accuracy and compassion

Jonathan Jones

15, Mar, 2023 @11:12 AM

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Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell
Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author

Natasha Solomons

03, Apr, 2022 @11:00 AM

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