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# Mona Lisa

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Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci. It is probably the most famous painting in the world. Nobody knows for sure who the painting is of. Vasari, Leonardo's first biographer, thought the painting was of a person named Lisa Gherardini. Lisa was the wife of a silk merchant, who lived in Florence. However it has also been suggested that the painting is of Lisa's husband, Francesco del Giocondo! This comes from the idea that the picture might be of a man rather than a woman.

Leonardo began to paint the Mona Lisa in 1503 and finished it about three or four years later. The painting was brought to France by Leonardo in 1516 and it was bought by Francis I of France.

The Mona Lisa used to hang in the Chateau Fontainebleau and was then moved to the Palace of Versailles. After the French Revolution, Napoleon I of France had it hanging in his bedroom in the Tuileries Palace, but it was later moved to the Louvre where it still is today.

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