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French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre ...
If you're like most travelers planning a trip to the Louvre, you are probably hoping to see the iconic "Mona Lisa." Painted by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci, the "Mona Lisa" is often called ...
The decision to isolate the Mona Lisa in a dedicated room at the Louvre is a response to a need for crowd management, but it ...
but the crowds can be a major turnoff (especially around the glass-enclosed "Mona Lisa"). Not to the point that you should skip the Louvre altogether, but it's important to go at a time where ...
For the Louvre, history ended in 1848—later masterpieces are in France’s other national museums—but its transformation ...
Pascal Le Segretain//Getty Images The Louvre, where the efforts to safeguard Paris’s most valuable art included taking 50 important pieces—including the Mona Lisa and the French crown jewels ...
When the painter died three years later, the Mona Lisa was passed onto Da Vinci's apprentice and then sold to the French King before it eventually wound up at the Louvre. The portrait was put on ...
Lady Gaga comes face to face with the Mona Lisa in the Louvre and plants a lipstick smile on her face in a new video clip released Wednesday by the singer and the French museum. The American pop ...
The Louvre’s last overhaul dates back to the 1980s, when the iconic glass pyramid was unveiled. Macron said the expansion of the museum will allow the “Mona Lisa” to be moved to a new ...