When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris, the art ...

The result? A superrealistic re-creation of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" — on her face. After months of planning and what could take up to 19 hours of painting, Houghton re-creates famous ...

At long last, Berenson had freed himself from the vampiric face of the Mona ... appearance on T-shirts and tea-towels. But looking again at how the myth of the Mona Lisa emerged, I believe that ...