Simply the most famous painting of all time, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is also one of the great mysteries of the world.
If you've read or seen The Da Vinci Code (and who does not?), Then you have a taste of some of the issues surrounding this masterpiece.
But the truth is that this story needs no embellishment of a fiction. What is known - and unknown - about the painting is interesting because of its secret hacks for hope.
The fact is Stranger Than> Fiction
First of all, Mona Lisa is not the name of the painting. At least not the name given to it by its painter Leonardo da Vinci.
He refused to give a name after his (first) work in 1507, despite the fact (first time) for more than four years.
The name "Mona Lisa" - which means "wife Lisa" in Italian - was in 1550 the work of painter Giorgio Vasari, the woman in the portrait of Lisa Gherardini to guess a wealthy young woman was hangedFlorence silk merchant.
You're mine, all mine!
Strangely, Leonardo, a commercial artist who was paid the bills by painting the Mona Lisa to keep for himself. Those who received the painting in order, if anyone has ever done.
Documents show that Leonardo painted himself has traveled and enhanced "over and over again until his death in 1519.
Art lives large
According to da Vinci's death, the king of France acquired the painting, and wasin the royal family for over 200 years. During the French Revolution the masterpiece was moved to its present location, the Louvre.
Where has remained ... borrowed, except for one time when Napoleon "- and hung in his bedroom!
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