A leaked memo from a Louvre director has sparked calls from an Italian official to return the Mona Lisa to Italy. As ...

The Mona Lisa has been a resident of the Louvre Museum in Paris for centuries, but there is a new push by some in Italy for ...

An Italian official has called for France’s Louvre Museum to temporarily return the Mona Lisa as the museum faces concerns of ...

Francesca Caruso, the regional assessor for culture in Italy’s Lombardy region, first suggested the possibility of bringing the painting back to Milan for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

The leaked memo said the Louvre suffered from “proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor ...

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President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to alleviate crowds at the Paris museum and to charge higher fees for visitors from ...

A ceramic hand warmer from Faenza, Italy, that looks like a book is twinned ... almost all of whom line up to see the Mona Lisa. Since Laurence des Cars became the museum’s director in 2021 ...

The renovation will include a new entrance near the River Seine and the creation of underground rooms. The Louvre has been ...