Did Leonardo paint a saucy topless Mona Lisa? The Italian press has been hailing “the topless Gioconda”, a nude pastiche of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa that art historians now claim was copied from an original by the Florentine master himself. The painting is known as Monna Vanna, and experts argue that “Leonardo painted a lost saucy parody of the Mona Lisa for his patron Giuliano de Medici. – The Guardian