“I think of it as the African Mona Lisa,” said award-winning novelist Ben Okri, gazing at the long-lost portrait of a Nigerian princess which recently turned up in a London flat. Ben Enwonwu’s 1974 painting…
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Looking for a home? Mona Lisa’s villa up for sale in Italy
One of Tuscany’s most famous villas is up for sale with its owners hoping to be smiling all the way to the bank thanks to its links to the Mona Lisa. The Villa Antinori was…
Could France sell the Mona Lisa to pay off its debts?
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is probably the best known work of art in the world. Her enigmatic smile beams down on hundreds of thousands of tourists a year at the Louvre Museum in Paris….