The Mona Lisa

You see it on tv and other shows, but until you are there, you can not imagine the feeling it is to stand in front of that painting and view it for yourself. Photos anyone.  We spent 4 hours there, and we only scratched the surface, but we got to see a lot of paintings, etc.
We had lunch(along with thousands of other people) on the grass on the Louvre grounds, had a rest in the hot sun, and then continued our journey, see next blog.

Mona Lisa

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This article is about the painting. For other uses, see Mona Lisa (disambiguation).

Mona Lisa

Italian: La Gioconda, French: La Joconde
Artist	Leonardo da Vinci
Year	c. 1503–1519
Type	Oil on poplar
Dimensions	77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in)
Location	Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo^[1]) is a half-length portrait of a woman 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 parodied work of art in the world."^[2]
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506.^[1] It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.^[1] The ambiguity of the subject's expression, frequently described as enigmatic,^[3] the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of forms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.^[1]