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The Mona Lisa [a] is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [4] [5] it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world."
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa — one of the most famous paintings in the world — is shrouded in mystery; from questions around the figures identity, to her puzzling, enigmatic expression.
The Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States in 1963. Planned by Jacqueline Kennedy and André Malraux, it was first displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with around 2,000 dignatories including John F. Kennedy at the first showing, followed by 500,000 people over the next three weeks.
The Prado Mona Lisa is a painting by the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci and depicts the same subject and composition as Leonardo's better known Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Paris. The Prado Mona Lisa has been in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid , Spain since 1819, [ 1 ] but was considered for decades a relatively unimportant copy. [ 2 ]
The scrutiny around the "Mona Lisa" spurred Francesca Caruso, the regional assessor for culture in Italy’s Lombardy region, to call for the painting to be returned to Milan, home to da Vinci's ...
The Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, will be relocated to a private room in the Louvre as the Paris museum undergoes a major renovation.. The portrait currently ...
Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. [3] Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$1040 million in 2024. [4]
The technique in this portrait and in the "Mona Lisa" is called "sfumato," in which da Vinci blended colors and shades to get gradual transitions between different shapes in each painting.