Who was mona lisa and why is mona lisa painting so expensive?
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Originally Answered: How valuable is the Mona Lisa? In 1962, a (then-record) $100 million insurance policy was taken out on the painting by the The Louvre in Paris. Just through inflation, that would make the Mona Lisa worth $780m in 2016. The real answer: priceless.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it 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.
Basically, because it got stolen once. Really.
As works by Da Vinci go, Mona Lisa was never that popular prior to the 20th century, and only a very few art historians really thought much of it. In 1911, a guy who really didn't know much about art stole it from the Louvre. Just took it down off the wall, stuffed it under his coat, and walked out the door. It took some 26 hours before the museum even noticed it was gone. When they did notice, the fact that it was by Da Vinci made it a huge media sensation. It wasn't recovered until two years later, and the press and public went apeshit. Suddenly, everybody had to come to the Louvre to see the Famous Masterpiece. And so it remains today.