Mona Lisa At 500

The Mona Lisa turns 500 this year. “Over the centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been denounced as a femme fatale, celebrated as the paragon of womanhood, inspired three suicides, and survived a theft. Yet that serene smile staring at us behind bulletproof glass in Paris’s Louvre museum remains mysterious.” And yet, some of her mysteries have been solved…