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Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa is believed to be the wife of Francisco del Giocondo, Lisa Gherardini. The 30 inches × 21 inches painting is an original oil painting on a white poplar panel and is owned by the government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France.

The Mona Lisa painting has no eyebrows because it was the fashion in the Renaissance to shave them. Woman shaved their facial hair, including their eyebrows. Leonardo was an Italian, but he sold the painting to the king of France.

Mona Lisa real name was Lisa Gherardini (born on 15th June 1479) based on their mid 16th biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari, many historians believe the painting is a portrait of Madam Lisa Giocondo, wife of a wealthy Florentine. It is from Vasari that the painting received the name Mona Lisa, also known as La Giocondo in Italian or La Joconde in French. Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to paint the piece in Italy. The Mona Lisa painting was worth US$860 million in 2020.

The Mona Lisa painting was stolen once by Vincenzo Peruggia, who was an Italian thief most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa on August 21,1911. It wasn’t until December 1913 that Peruggia was finally caught, and the Mona Lisa painting was returned.

Mona Lisa painting has been described as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”.


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