"When I came to Lecco. I realized he had painted the Mona Lisa here." For centuries, art historians have been trying to ...
When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris, the art ...
John Ruskin, England’s preeminent mid-Victorian critic, wrote off the Mona Lisa as a total mess. He lamented that the painting’s background was simply “grotesque” being all “blue and ...