1" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="3651914132" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="display: block;"> The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that 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". Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa (1503–19), the portrait hangs behind bulletproof glass within the Louvre Museum and draws thousands of spectators each day. It is the most famous painting in the world. At the time of the “ Mona Lisa ” heist, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was far from the most visited item in the museum. Leonardo painted the portrait around 1507, and it was not until the 1860s that art critics claimed the Mona Lisa was one of the finest examples of Renaissance painting . Jun 15, 20 Mona Lisa , also known as La Giocon...