Louvre Agrees To Chemical Analysis Of “Mona Lisa”

“Notoriously nervous to clean its most famous Leonardo, the Louvre has collaborated with the Labor atoire du Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France and the European Synch rotron Radia tion Facility to perform a quantitative chemical analysis on the Mona Lisa, 1503-06, and the faces of seven other works by the artist.”