Where Is The Mona Lisa Displayed?
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, a 16th century oil portrait, is almost certainly the most famous piece of art the world has ever known. It currently resides in Paris, under the ownership of the French government, and can be found hanging in the Louvre, the world’s largest museum. ‘Mona Lisa’ was not, in fact, the painting’s original title. The portrait depicts Lisa Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine businessman, and was only given its now-famous title as a result of a description in a biography of da Vinci published over thirty years after his death. The painting was not, in fact, immediately appreciated; it was not until the rise of the Symbolist movement in mid-19th Century that artists, and the public, began to explore the piece as an investigation of the ‘feminine mystique’. Its notoriety was further increased in 1911 when it was stolen from the Salon Carr. Pablo Picasso was questioned by police on suspicion of its theft, but it was eventually proved to be the work of a mast
