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So Peruggia was alone with the Mona Lisa. (suspenseful music) - "I wasn't sure that I wanted to take La Gioconda. "There was Titian, Raphael, Correggio, Giorgione. "But I made my choice at the ...

Stated crudely, the Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the ... For nigh on half a millennium, La Gioconda — or the 'jovial one,' as the painting was ironically named by Vasari — with ...

In 1962, the Mona Lisa was insured for $100M ... a man smeared cake on the protective glass surrounding La Gioconda. The man responsible entered the Louvre in a wheelchair, dressed as a woman ...

Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca ... is sometimes called La Gioconda by the Italians ...

However, the Mona Lisa (real name ‘La Gioconda’ because the subject is thought to be Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo) was actually bought by the French king Francis I from Leonardo da Vinci.

MONA'S ITALIAN HOLIDAY ... "we are ready to host the La Gioconda," she offered, using the painting's Italian name, at least until their French counterparts get their act together, reports ...

All except Number 779, known in France as La Joconde, in Italy as La Gioconda and everywhere else as the Mona Lisa. This is, allegedly, the portrait of a Florentine lady, Lisa Gherardini, the wife of ...

Whatever the explanation, there is something tantalisingly impermanent about the Mona Lisa's smile. Now you see it and now you don't. The smile, ignored for 350 years, is a large part of La ...