Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.
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Art critics hailed news of the move, saying that the precious painting has stolen the spotlight for long enough.
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Just who was ‘Mona Lisa?’
It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...
This room will host the Mona Lisa, and visitors will be able to purchase a special ticket to enter it. Currently, the portrait receives as many as 25,000 daily visitors, each getting less than a m ...