Mona Lisa

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A new exhibition at Dublin’s Science Gallery delves into our fear of flaws

Quick sketch is ‘closest we get of a snapshot of Leonardo during his own lifetime’

Five hundred years after his death, the original Renaissance Man's creative brilliance is still astonishing

Competition to celebrate museum’s 30th birthday offers couple an overnight stay

Banksy act of art destruction has said something that needed to be said: art is being choked to death by money

Many Irish tourist spots charge more than more famous global counterparts

The Ulysses Centre aspires to reveal Joyce in a more innovative way

The thrilling history of ‘Salvator Mundi – the Holy Grail of Old Master paintings’

And in Tableau, Eithne Jordan shows why she needs to paint

Sketch may have been preparatory work of Leonardo da Vinci before Mona Lisa

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Manchester attack will be only topic of conversation among classmates at school today

Published: September 19th, 1986. Photograph by Paddy Whelan

Designers of the so-called ‘pencil towers’ should take a leaf out of Da Vinci’s book

Renaissance man meets Renaissance woman

Dalí, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst: they are not con artists but their reputations are overinflated

Controversial images including one of the Dublin statue wearing a Muslim headscarf

Weaponry and traditional Muslim headscarves were superimposed on the images

This week’s US Open course owes more to Donald Ross’ original creation after revamp

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit star retired from screen work in 2012 due to Parkinson’s disease

"I wouldn’t consider myself a film buff, really,” says the Irish star of Game of Thrones as he talks about his hand-picked selection of classic 1970s flicks screening in Cork

Culture minister says ‘Liberty Leading the People’ too fragile to travel

Being in college means being in the know about all things music, art, film, food and politics, so here’s a cheatsheet to start you off

The identity of da Vinci’s model has baffled historians for centuries

A month-by-month cultural portrait of 1913 reveals a world that was about to change forever

The smallest incidents at Old Trafford will be magnified and dramatised

There is no easy way to categorise Neil Jordan or his work. He discusses writing, directing, tackling national monuments and battling the studio system