The Mona Lisa is a portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.Mona Lisa has been painted between 1503 and 1517.
Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
It was acquired by François 1st and is now the property of the French Republic, permanently display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797.
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