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Activity 1. As the most famous painting in the world you should be able to answer these three questions easily. 1. In what museum is theis paining permanently displayed? The original Mona Lisa is on permanent display at the the Musee du Louvre in Paris 2. How much is the painting worth? Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. It was assessed at US$100 million on December 14, 1962. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$850 million in 2019. 3. Who is this painting of? Who is » Mona Lisa»? Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is the wife of Francesco del Giocondo These three questions are a bit more difficult! 4 Was the painting ever damaged? how? In 1956, it was damaged when a vandal threw acid over it while it was on display at a museum in Montauban, in France 5 Was the painting ever stolen? Who stole it? Vincenzo Peruggia was an Italian thief, most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa on 21 August 1911 6 Why is she smiling? The smile is higher on the right and lower on the left. This makes her expression unusual. Scientists have recently suggested that we are fascinated by her smile because of the way the human eye processes information. Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University says that the eye uses two types of vision, direct and peripheral. When we focus on the smile, we use direct vision and the smile seems to disappear but when we look at other parts of the painting our peripheral vision notices shadows and picks up Mona Lisa’s smile This should be an easy question Do you like the painting? Yes I love it. .

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