What's so special about the Mona Lisa?
- Written by Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia
Mona Lisa, Musée du Louvre, Paris, April 2019.Susan Broomhall
Every day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view its single mounted artwork, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
To do so, they walk straight past countless masterpieces of the European Renaissance. So why...