15 Mind blowing facts you didn't know about Monalisa

The Mona Lisa (/ˌmoʊnə ˈliːsə/; Italian: Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza] or La Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda], French: La Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance,[1][2] and has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world."[3] The painting's novel qualities include the subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic,[4] the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism.[5]

The painting is likely of the Italian noblewoman Lisa Gherardini,[6] the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. It had been believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506; however, Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. Recent academic work suggests that it would not have been started before 1513.[7][8][9][10] It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic itself, on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1797.[11]

The Mona Lisa is one of the most valuable paintings in the world. It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962[12] (equivalent to $650 million in 2018).