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Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci, 1503
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Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci · 1503

Why it's great

A woman with a calm face and a faint smile sits in front of a hazy landscape of winding paths and rivers. Leonardo da Vinci painted it in about 1503, and it is probably the most famous painting in the world, so visitors to the Louvre crowd around it.

Where to see it

📍 Louvre MuseumParis, France

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About the artist

Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519 · born in Anchiano · died in Clos Lucé

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, inventor and scientist, born in 1452. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of notebook pages with drawings of flying machines, anatomy, water and plants. He died in France in 1519.

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