‘The Stolen Lady’ imagines how the ‘Mona Lisa’ came to France
by Stefanie Milligan
Nov 03, 2021
2 minutes
Today, the most celebrated Florentine lady in the world sits protected behind bulletproof glass in a temperature-controlled room in the palatial Louvre Museum in Paris. She receives countless love letters and flowers, which arrive in her very own mailbox. Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait, best known as the “Mona Lisa,” is so universally popular that the French government, which owns the painting, would be
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