Apparently, the Mona Lisa had left the Louvre for America and first arrived in the National Gallery of Art in 1963. Then, it had arrived in New York in the Metropolitan Museum. Dr. Hoving, a curator, had one day noticed the people in charge of the Mona Lisa running around the place with towels, and later that night it had been found that the sprinklers on the ceiling had managed to break the glass barrier and reach the painting. The museum declined to comment regarding the incident. Join discussion...

Joe Medeiros was struck by the robbery in 1911 of the Mona Lisa by Vincenzo Peruggia. As a filmmaker and writer, he was determined to turn it into some kind of film. As he was researching it for a documentary though, he found out that the story really had a lot more to it. Peruggia, an Italian, was bringing the painting back to Florence, Italy as an act of patriotism, holding that Napoleon stole the painting from Italy. To Peruggia, he was only reclaiming Italy's lost property. Medeiros still dug deeper and found that Francis I had in fact purchased the piece from Da Vinci and it was indeed French property. The painting was returned and Peruggia caught, but not before the Mona Lisa toured Italy and before Peruggia became something of a national celebrity, receiving all sorts of food and wine while in jail. Peruggia was only imprisoned for a little over a year, though he died soon after in WW1. Medeiros though, still holds that there is a lot left unsolved. After all, how did Peruggia outsmart all the guards and police and walk out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa? And was patriotism his only reason behind it? Did he act alone? How did he actually leave the museum? Medeiros claims that he has dug and found the answers, but those will be kept secret until the film. Join discussion...

NOTE: The article is the second one on the page. Sotheby's is auctioning 4 works by Banksy. These contain Untitled (Happy Coppers), Untitled, Mona Lisa, and Police. Happy Coppers contain two "coppers" which have a Wal-Mart smiley on their faces. Untitled shows a bird with a grenade in its mouth with a very cartoonish look. Mona Lisa has Mona Lisa with an AK-49 in her hands and a red target on her four head. Police shows a policeman with an anarchy sign behind him. Join discussion...

A man by the name Pascal Cotte has claimed that he has found proof of Leonardo Davinci painting eyebrows and eyelashes on Mona Lisa. He used a special camera that enhanced the painting to 24 times its original size and found that due to aging and poor restoration the small traces of Mona Lisa's eyebrows and eyelashes have been covered up. He also believes that Mona Lisa's face and smile were originally wider than they appear today. Join discussion...