The Louvre in Paris has become increasingly open about works in its collection that were looted by the Nazis. In late 2017, it opened a dedicated display for orphaned works that had been looted or ...

Few artworks have inspired as much wonder, speculation, and myth as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Behind its serene smile lies a history woven through centuries of royal collections, scientific ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris is being accused of damaging a massive work of art by contemporary American artist Cy Twombly. The Cy Twombly Foundation alleges the museum’s recent renovation has ...

This onetime piece of kitchen décor will soon hang in France’s most famous museum. The painted panel that an elderly French woman discovered above her hot plate back in 2019 has been obtained by the ...

Eugène Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” (1830), oil on canvas, 102.4 × 128 inches (image via Wikipedia) What is it with art vandalism these days? First there was the Picasso at the Menil ...

The world's most expensive painting, known as "Salvator Mundi," could make an appearance at the Louvre in Paris this week. The painting, which may have been produced by Leonardo da Vinci, depicts ...

There is nothing like spending a rainy afternoon at a museum, soaking in the beauty and wonder of art and history. Now the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, is letting you do that right from ...