Has Anyone Seen the Mona Lisa?

The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and Napoleon Bonaparte both fell in love with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, she ended up in the Louvre, for all to see. The painting wasn't necessarily more famous than any other great works from that period. That was until 1911 when Vincenzo Peruggia decided to attempt to return the Mona Lisa back to her home: Italy. When Louvre employees realised the Mona Lisa was stolen, a massive police investigation was set up. Yet the kidnapping of the Mona Lisa wasn't solved because of it, but thanks to Peruggia himself and two Italian art collectors.

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The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, could easily be the most famous painting ever. Nowadays, almost everyone knows the famous smile of the mysterious women dressed in her day’s Florentine fashion. Enormous quantities of ink and effort have been spent over the decades to unravel the mysteries behind this painting. The painting’s history is a little obscure, but it is believed that Leonardo painted it in his residence in Florence between 1503 and 1506. When in 1516 Leonardo was invited at court in France by King Francis I, he brought the, still unfinished, painting with him. When he died in 1519, his assistant inherited his precious painting.

In 1530 the assistant sold the painting to the king for 4000 gold coins, which would roughly be around the sum of 100.000 dollars in today’s money—an enormous amount. The painting went on display in his palace of Fontainebleau, where it stayed until Louis XIV moved it to his grand palace of Versailles. It remained there until Louis XVI’s execution. Afterwards, the Mona Lisa left the possession of the Kings of France forever. It became the property of France’s people, and it was decided that it would be displayed at the newly appointed museum of the Louvre.

But when the Louvre opened in August 1793 with an exhibition of more than 500 paintings, the Mona Lisa was not among them. When Napoleon saw the Mona Lisa in 1800, he became enchanted by her, describing her as the “Sphinx of the Occident” and politely referred to her as “Madame Lisa”. It was love at first sight, and for the next few years, she hung in his bedroom. After this love affair, she returned to the Louvre to lead a calm and uneventful life for nearly a century until that fateful Monday morning in the summer of 1911.

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