Mona Liza 

The Mona Liza is a half-lenght portrait of a women by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as " the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most paradied work of arts in the world".

 The painting, thought to be a portrait of Liza Gherardini, the wife of Francesko del Gicondo, is in oil on a white lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506,  although Leonardo may have continued.Working on it as late a 1517. It was acquired by king Francis I of France  and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Louvre museum in Paris since 1797. The ambiguity of the subject`s expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of froms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.

Every day, 15,000 people visit the Louvre museum in Paris. Most of them to see the Mona Liza.
But what is the story of this painting?