Leonardo da Vinci
Lady with an Ermine
c. 1489–91
- Leonardo da Vinci
- National Museum in Kraków
- Renaissance
- Women in art
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1503–19
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- Artist
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Year
- c. 1503–19
- Museum
- Louvre
- Movement
- Renaissance
- Period
- 15th and 16th centuries
- Style
- Portrait
- Format
- Portrait
Painter, inventor and scientist of the High Renaissance.
Public domain work · Cleared for print
The story behind it
What made the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world was a theft.
- On 21 August 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia, who worked at the Louvre, walked out with it; it stayed missing for more than two years.
- It was recovered in Florence in 1913 when Peruggia tried to sell it. Months of headlines turned it into a legend.
- It is smaller than people expect: about 77 × 53 cm, painted on a poplar panel.
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- Leonardo da Vinci
- Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
- Renaissance
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