The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

Artist Ron Piccirillo claims he found the heads of a lion, an ape and a buffalo hovering in the air in the background of the Mona Lisa, after turning the painting on its side. (Photo Credit: ...

The Secrets of Mona Lisa” and the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum’s new digs were unveiled at an opening gala on Jan. 19. The 16,000-square-foot building on Rogers Avenue, donated by Arvest Bank in ...

Historical paintings are also complex chemical objects so museums turn to analytical chemistry to decipher the mysteries concealed within their micrometric paint layers. Recently, x ray and infrared ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, inventor and anatomist, to name just a few of his talents — and now, you can add innovative chemist to the polymath’s many gifts. It turns out the master artist was ...

You’d think a girl could be left alone after 500 years, but if anything, the scrutiny of the Mona Lisa is more intense than ever. After studying the painting with 3-D laser scanners, researchers ...

Not by Leonardo: Andrew Graham-Dixon with the so-called Isleworth Mona Lisa Deducing that there were in fact two separate versions of the Mona Lisa, he leapt on a plane to visit potential precursors ...