A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...
Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.
Who posed for Leonardo da Vinci when he painted the Mona Lisa in the early 1500s?
Now that the Mona Lisa is going to be moved to another room at the Louvre in Paris, masterworks hanging in the same space by the likes of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.