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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$1010 million in 2023. [4]
The Mona Lisa (/ ˌ m oʊ n ə ˈ l iː s ə / MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: la Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Crown Hotel (Mona Lisa Black Background) Acrylic and paper collage on canvas mounted on a cross frame 48 13/16 x 85 in $7.4 million (2013) [38] Private collection 1982 Untitled: Oilstick and graphite on paper 27 5/8 x 38 7/8 in $4.5 million (2018) [26] Private collection 1982 Mater: Acrylic and oilstick on canvas 72 x 84 in $5.8 million (2009) [39]
The vandalization of cultural heritage in the name of protest, by Just Stop Oil and other activist groups, continued apace. The Magna Carta, the “Mona Lisa” and Stonehenge were among the ...
Konody observed of the Isleworth subject that "[t]he head is inclined at a different angle". [29] Physicist John F. Asmus, who had previously examined the Mona Lisa in the Louvre and investigated other works by Leonardo, published a computer image processing study in 1988 concluding that the brush strokes of the face in the painting were performed by the same artist responsible for the brush ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has become one of the most recognizable paintings in the world since it was created in 1503. [2] In 1963, the painting made a rare voyage across the Atlantic from Paris for exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...
In recent times, a book about Nazi plunder by Lynn H. Nicholas and a documentary film by the same title, The Rape of Europa, suggested that if the painting were to reappear today, it would be worth in excess of US$100M. $100,000,000 [32] Falsely reported to have been found 1 August 2012, the location is still unknown. En Canot, by Jean ...