Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa, one of the most famous p of all time, in 1503. He was working on a special painting for a church at the time, but it was not going well. The woman who can be seen in the Mona Lisa is s to be Madonna Lisa del Giocondo. She was the wife of an Italian businessman who asked da Vinci to paint a portrait of her.
After da Vinci finished the painting in 1506 he was invited by the French King, Francois I, to visit F , and he took the painting with him. Today the Mona Lisa is kept in the Louvre, an a museum in Paris, and it is seen by about six million v a year.
The painting measure only 77 centimeters b 53 centimeters and is painted with oil on wood. In 1911, it was stolen by a work at the Louvre, Vincenzo Peruggia, who took it out of the museum by h it under his coat. Two years later the police found the painting under Peruggia's bed after he tried to sell it.
In 1962, the Mona Lisa was taken to Washington and New York for e . For the journey, it was insured for 100 million dollars, making it the most valuable painting ever!
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