How Did the Mona Lisa Become So Famous? 🎨
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Morning Mona!
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Beauty.
Well…if I’m being honest??
The Mona Lisa is kinda beat.
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I mean like she’s ~okay~
But if she’s just ~okay~, how’d she become so famous?
It was 1503.
Leonard Mothaf*ckin DaVinci gets a call:
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So Leonardo gets to work.
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Little problem though…
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Leonardo has a stroke and dies.
So his portrait of Lisa del Giocondo remains unfinished.
But then this dude, King Francois the 1st of France rolls up:
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He didn’t give a f*ck that she was unfinished.
And takes her for his personal, royal collection.
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So here’s where things start changing for the meh (in my opinion) Mona.
See, because she was now in a ~royal~ collection, critics start going NUTS over her beauty:
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Okay, relax.
This critic horniness causes the Mona Lisa to become more sought after.
So she’s passed from royalty to royalty.
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Then the French Revolution overthrows the French monarchy, and the Mona Lisa is confiscated and put in France’s premiere art museum – The Louvre.
She’s owned by the French people now:
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Woah woah woah hang on.
That’s modern day.
At the time, literally nobody knows who she is. She’s not a household name.
Until this dude – Vincenzo Peruggia – shows up:
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Ya, in 1911, Vincenzo takes the Mona right off the damn wall and leaves the museum with her.
He places her in his suitcase with a false bottom and starts making his way to Italy.
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The news goes crazy.
Everybody starts talking about the stolen Mona Lisa.
People keep going to the Louvre to see where she USED to hang:
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‘The Louvre has reopened its doors, but the Mona Lisa has not returned.’
Wtf.
At this point, this worldwide flurry of news makes the Mona Lisa a household name.
She’s insanely famous…but she’s missing.
Because all the while, fricken Vincenzo thinks he’s doing a good deed by bringing the Mona Lisa back to her motherland, Italy:
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2 years go by.
The missing Mona gets more famous by the day.
Until Vincenzo shows up at an art dealer in Italy and tries to sell her.
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Yaaa, everyone kinda knew who she was at that point, Vincenzo.
So she was returned to the Louvre and remains there to this day!
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