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"Mona Lisa" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949), in which it was performed by Sergio de Karlo and a recurrent accordion motif. The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
The 1950 song "Mona Lisa" recorded by Nat King Cole. The 1952 short story "The Smile" by Ray Bradbury, published in his 1959 collection A Medicine for Melancholy; The 1984 song "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" recorded by David Allan Coe. The 2011 song "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" by American rock band Panic! at the Disco.
Peruggia's theft is part of popular culture, and over the years it has been celebrated in books, films, and songs including the "Mona Lisa" written in 1978 by Ivan Graziani. [24] In Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931), an early German sound film, Peruggia was portrayed by Willi Forst .
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"Why Mona Lisa Smiled" is a song by Chris de Burgh from the album Moonfleet & Other Stories, about Leonardo and why he painted the Mona Lisa. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping's soundtrack features the track Mona Lisa by The Lonely Island that criticizes the titular painting and name-drops Da Vinci's name.
The song's title is an allusion to Mona Lisa, the famous Renaissance-era oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. In a 2011 interview, Urie regarded the name and theme of the song as neither male nor female. “That whole thing with Mona Lisa was the idea that there is this character.
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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 ...