Modern icon, the portrait of Monna Lisa Gherardini, married in 1495 to the Florentine patrician Francesco del Giocondo, hence the name of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting. When Francis I called the Italian painter to his court, he took the Mona Lisa with him. Taken by the camarde in 1519, the painting remained in France and was part of the collection of the King's Cabinet. The aesthetic qualities of this painting: the enigmatic smile, the shape of the face, the sfumato bathing the distant and the life of the work (it was stolen from the Louvre in particular), all this undoubtedly
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