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Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.

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As part of a massive renovation, the Leonardo da Vinci portrait will get its own gallery space accessible from a separate ...

France will launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for ...

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IN our last week's issue we gave an account of the action taken at the quarterly plenary meeting of the five academies of the Institute of France on January 5, in relation to the proposal of the ...