PARIS (Reuters) – A major exhibition marking 500 years since the death of Leonardo da Vinci opened in Paris on Thursday but there was intrigue over whether the “Salvator Mundi” painting of Christ, one of the best-known works attributed to the master, would make a late appearance. The exhibition at …
The Seine is bursting its banks after torrential rains. PARIS — The self-styled fountain of world civilization has begun to overflow. After days of heavy and historic rainfall across continental Europe, the Seine, which normally flows gracefully under the arches of 37 bridges in Paris, dramatically overflowed its banks. Many of …
TURIN, Italy (AP) — For the earliest Egyptologists, a trip to the Egyptian Museum in Turin was considered indispensable. The museum’s new director is seeking to return the almost 200-year-old museum to its one-time prominence, boosted by an overhaul of the collection and exhibit space of near-pharaonic proportions. Museum director …
PARIS (AP) — Gray skies over a half-empty Eiffel Tower. Since last week’s terrorist attacks that left 17 victims and three gunmen dead, the swarms of sightseers have thinned below Paris’ most visited monument, baring the dull concrete of the giant plaza. Just over a week after the attacks, only …
PARIS (AP) — Without love, what is Paris? And yet what is a trip to Paris without unfettered vistas of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre or Notre Dame from bridges over the River Seine? Concerns about scenery are clashing with sentimentality in this reputed City of Love over a profusion …
Seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners in the 1930s are being returned to their surviving relatives as part of an ongoing French effort to give back looted, stolen or appropriated art. The works include four paintings that currently hang in the Louvre in Paris. Six of the pieces were …
GENEVA (AP) — A Zurich-based foundation says it will prove to the world Thursday that Leonardo Da Vinci painted an earlier version of the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa Foundation, which owns the “Isleworth Mona Lisa,” says that after 35 years of research, experts believe it predates the famed 16th-century …
An intense and controversial restoration of the last great work by Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, goes before the public on Thursday at the Louvre Museum The 18-month-long restoration of the painting that Leonardo laboured on for 20 years until his death in 1519 will …
Researchers will attempt to identify the woman who sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, by digging up the remains of an Italian noblewoman. Art historian Silvano Vinceti believes that by locating the remains of Lisa Gherardini, he can prove whether or not she was the artist’s model. A recently …
A male apprentice, longtime companion and possible lover of Leonardo da Vinci was the main influence and a model for the “Mona Lisa” painting, an Italian researcher said Wednesday. But the researcher, Silvano Vinceti, said the portrait also represents a synthesis of Leonardo’s scientific, artistic and philosophical beliefs. Because the …