Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber To End ‘Public Disappointment’
25-04-2024 20:19 via artnews.com

Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber To End ‘Public Disappointment’

When I took my mother back to Paris for her first visit in nearly five decades, there was no question we would go to the Louvre. I was more surprised that she wanted to stand in the long line to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) for the few seconds we would get to take pictures and selfies with the famous painting.This experience is often annoying and disappointing for tourists, with one recent analysis of 18,000 reviews deeming the Renaissance portrait “the world’s most
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