If the "Mona Lisa" was showing a few teeth, Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th-century masterpiece might not be quite as famous as it is. That’s because the portrait, believed to be of Lisa Gherardini ...

Mona Lisa's famous smile might not have been genuine when she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago. Scientists wanted to investigate Lisa Gherardini's facial expression and ...

Mona Lisa's smile, possibly the most widely observed and scrutinized grin in history, might just be a "lie," scientists say. An international team of researchers examined the symmetry of the ...

A 2017 study published in the journal Scientific Reports (part of the network of Nature’s journals) proclaimed that Mona Lisa’s smile did indeed depict genuine happiness, according to the ...

The Mona Lisa is of course one of the world’s most famous pieces of artwork, yet people have always wondered whether the wwoman depicted in the painting is smiling or not.

In 1516, when he was 64 years old, Leonardo da Vinci found himself at a crossroads. His patron, Giuliano de’ Medici, the brother of Pope Leo X, had just died and new commissions were not ...

The Mona Lisa’s smile came not from some divine intervention. Instead, it was the product of years of painstaking and studied human effort involving applied science as well as artistic skill.

For starters, he says, that famous smile is not Gherardini’s. Analysis of the “Mona Lisa” shows, he says, that “when Leonardo began painting the model in front of him, he did not draw that ...