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A tourist has revealed the best way to get the perfect picture in front of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa without it being obscured by the 30,000 visitors who visit the Louvre daily.
The Mona Lisa can now do more than smile, thanks to new artificial intelligence technology from Microsoft. Last week, Microsoft researchers detailed a new AI model they’ve developed that can ...
The Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda, was in fact Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Aged 24, when Da Vinci began painting her in 1503, she outlived ...
The Mona Lisa painting is examined with a non-invasive technique called X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to study the thickness of paint layers and their chemical composition. Italian art detective ...
An early copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which has bright colours believed to reflect the original painting, will go on display in London for the first time since 1902. The Dulwich Picture ...