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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, oil painting showing a woman with a slight smile and folded hands, seated before a distant, hazy landscape.
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Who Was the Subject of the Mona Lisa?
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. Mona Lisa
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, oil painting showing a woman with a slight smile and folded hands, seated before a distant, hazy landscape.
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503ā€“19; in the Louvre, Paris.

Mona Lisa

painting by Leonardo da Vinci
Also known as: ā€œLa Giocondaā€, ā€œLa Jocondeā€, ā€œPortrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondoā€(Show More)
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Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the worldā€™s most famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris, where it has remained an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The sitterā€™s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have made the painting a source of ongoing investigation and fascination. The painting...

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