More than 500 years after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is arguably the world’s most famous painting. Many scholars consider it an outstanding work of Renaissance art – but history is full of great paintings. So, how did this particular portrait skyrocket to unprecedented fame? Ted-Ed investigates.
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