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Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?

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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