The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of artworks looted by Nazis during the Second World War.

A huge sculpture deemed too obscene for the regal gardens of the Louvre Museum has found a new home at Paris' edgier Pompidou Centre.

AMERICA has embarked on a great festival of denial.

An Irish woman living in Paris, Emma Kennedy has the insider’s guide to the city

A landmark retrospective celebrating Christian Dior Couture’s 70th anniversary opened in

An Egyptian man suspected of charging at soldiers at the Louvre museum in Paris with a machete has been questioned by French investigators for the first time since the attack.

The father of an Egyptian man accused of attacking French soldiers guarding The Louvre in Paris said he trusts the French judiciary to find out the truth behind his son's alleged involvement.

14 dead as Paris floods threaten works of art.

Kya deLongchamps pauses to consider the most enigmatic face in the World.

LENS, in northern France, has several claims to fame. Its railway station is unique and the only branch of the Louvre, outside Paris, has been established in the town.

Gay novelist Edmund White lived in the French capital in the 1980s, but in his new memoir he recounts that local customs were a shock to him, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Guilt-racked Britons are using their sheds to eat unhealthy snacks and store love letters from old flames, a new survey has shown.

RICK GEKOSKI’s book, Lost, Stolen or Shredded, is an expertly told tale of the shadowy world of books, manuscripts and artworks that have disappeared.

Imagine this scenario.

The Louvre has been forced to close after staff walked out in protest at what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the Paris museum’s vast galleries.

Paris officials have come up with an eco-friendly way to keep the city’s grass trim – by enlisting hungry sheep to replace gas-guzzling lawnmowers.

An iconic painting by Delacroix has been vandalised at the Louvre in Paris.

Photographers crowded round today as the curtain was pulled back to present what is claimed to be an early version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

The Louvre Museum is unveiling a new wing and galleries dedicated to the arts of Islam.

A Spanish museum has discovered a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” that one of his students painted in the studio where the masterpiece was completed.

Egypt’s antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation’s lost treasures to a new level today by cutting ties with one of the world’s premier museums, the Louvre, over disputed artefacts.

AN “unhinged” Russian woman, allegedly frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality, threw a teacup at the world’s most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, but it emerged unscathed due to its bullet-proof glass cover, the Louvre museum said yesterday.

Richard Collins on the translator whose persistence solved a mystery.

FOR centuries, the Mona Lisa has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning.

WHILE in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum.

THE Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece of a mysterious woman with a slight smile, is deteriorating and the Louvre Museum said yesterday it would conduct an in-depth technical study to determine why.

The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece of a mysterious woman with a slight smile, is deteriorating and the Louvre Museum said today it would conduct an in-depth technical study to determine why.