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Mona Lisa

oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre, Paris

8 dated entries naming Mona Lisa, drawn from 7 separate years between 1479 CE and 1962 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1479June 15 – Lisa del Giocondo, Florentine noblewoman believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (d. 1542)source

16th century

  • 1503October – Earliest record of Leonardo da Vinci working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, probably the Mona Lisa, in Florence.source
  • 1506Leonardo da Vinci completes most of his work on the Mona Lisa.source
  • 1542July 15 – Lisa del Giocondo, Florentine noblewoman, believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (b. 1479)source

20th century

  • 1911August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the painting is returned in 1913.source
  • 1913December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence, and is arrested.source
  • 1913December 30 – Italy returns the Mona Lisa to France.source
  • 1962December 14 – Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting the Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the Louvre, its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.source

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