The world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, needs a space big enough to welcome its many admirers. It is therefore housed in the Louvre’s largest room, the Salle des États, which is also home to other remarkable Venetian paintings such as The Wedding Feast at Cana by Veronese.

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Jan 28, 2025 · The renovations are expected to take nearly a decade to complete and will include a new entrance and a dedicated room displaying the Mona Lisa. The aims: to bring the museum up to modern...

Jan 28, 2025 · The Louvre Museum in Paris will move the Mona Lisa to a newly created exhibition space, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on Tuesday as he unveiled sweeping plans to expand and ...

Jan 29, 2025 · The Mona Lisa is currently housed in the Louvre's Salle des États gallery. Stefan Wloch via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 “Every day, this very room ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Crowd of tourists with their phones in hand, taking photos of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, France on June 7, 2024. Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images.

Jan 28, 2025 · French president Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece and one of the most iconic artworks in the world, would soon be moved to a new exhibition ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Louvre visitors in front of The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese in June 2024. The painting is among several masterworks that may soon cease to play "second fiddle'" to the Mona Lisa