Mona Lisa (c. 1503-1517) by Leonardo da Vinci on display in the Galerie Médicis at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France; Cheng-en Cheng from Taichung City, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Significant information about the Mona Lisa painting , and regarding the question, “Where is the Mona Lisa ?” as well as the woman’s identity originates from the Italian writer and historian Giorgio Vasari and his seminal text The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects ... The Mona Lisa is a very good painting . But that alone can’t explain its massive, centuries-long popularity. Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa , the world’s most famous, recognizable, and copied artwork, has a storied history. Painted between 1503 and 1519, it was owned by French royalty for centuries. Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Lisa Gherardini from the early 16th century would become better known as the Mona Lisa . It would become his most famous work, in any discipline, and many regard it as the finest painting ever made. Introduction The Mona Lisa represents Leonardo's pinnacle as a painter - the seemingly infinite variations in tone using subtle transparent glazes would produce a lifelike quality which helped to lift Renaissance portraiture to a new level. This was the celebrated ...
