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    The myriad Mona Lisas

    Aug 26, 2021 3 minutes
    Michael Prodger on Art

    THE MONA LISA IS NOW AN immovable object. The last time the painting left the Louvre was in 1974 when it was loaned to Russia and Japan and it will probably never travel again. Before that, it had left France just twice since Leonardo brought it in his baggage when he moved to the Loire valley in 1516 to see out the last years of his life as the guest of Francis I.

    In 1963, the painting travelled to America in a deal brokered.

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