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.
An Italian official in Milan has called for France’s Louvre Museum to temporarily return Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Italy as the museum faces concerns of disrepair and appeals for ...
A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. But was she also the subject of the Mona Lisa? Many scholars believe she ...