Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa portrait.
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Mona Lisa's beauty comes as much from what she's hiding as what she reveals. Who is she looking at? What has triggered that famous smile? Is she even smiling at all?
Art historians have deduced in that singularly mysterious visage everything from a cross-dressing self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci to the knowing glance of an unfaithful wife to the satisfied pride of a pregnant woman. Bob Dylan once even offered up a very 20th century American conclusion on the matter: "Mona Lisa must've had the highway blues."(See pictures of the Louvre in Paris.)
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