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Mona Lisa: Quick Facts

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Did You Know?

  • The Mona Lisa has its own mailbox in which the painting receives fan mail and flowers addressed to it.
  • In France, it is actually illegal to buy or sell the Mona Lisa.

Photos and Videos

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, oil painting showing a woman with a slight smile and folded hands, seated before a distant, hazy landscape.
A man stands in front of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which is encased in glass and displayed on a plain wall inside a gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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