The illusion of the Mona Lisa's smile is created by the subtle blending of light and shadow in the painting, which tricks the viewer's eye into perceiving a changing expression as they move around it. Leonardo da Vinci's use of sfumato, a technique of blending colors and tones seamlessly, adds to the ambiguity of the smile, leaving it open to interpretation.

No, It was Leonardo da vinci.

The Mona Lisa is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence by Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa painting is currently located at The Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

The Louvre is one of the world's largest museums and the most visited art museum in the world. Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square meters. The objects are divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.

No, the Vatican is NOT the location of the Mona Lisa.

The Mona Lisa has a secure place in the Louvre (museum) in Paris, France.

The Musee du Louve in Paris France

The Mona Lisa is in The Louvre, in Paris FRANCE.

No. Leonardo da Vinci painted The Mona Lisa (started 1503, finished 1506) in Florence, Italy.

Because it radically broke with all the traditions of painting.

It is believed to be but, no one knows for sure. Many scholars and facial experts have come to the conclusion that their faces are startlingly similar from the size of the nostrils to the distance between the eyes and so on and so forth. Laying a transparency of the mona Lisa over a self potrait of da vinci has also proved that the images almost exactly match up. Some people believe that it's him in "drag" but being the brilliant man he was he probably wanted to see his own perfect mate because scientists have proven that we are very inclined to fall for or be attracted to the opposite sex when they have characteristics similar to our own

As far as we know, he never delivered this portrait, but kept it. Why he did has been the subject of guesswork for centuries. There are lots of theories, but none that is agreed upon. You will meet people who believe in one of those theories and tell you:'This is the absolute truth!

Her real name was Lisa del Giocondo. She was a Florentine lady married to a successful cloth merchant: Francesco del Giocondo.

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No, the 'Mona Lisa' is in the Louvre, Paris, France.

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still you have a point .like so many things now dayz the Mona Lissa i famous mainly for being famous.The Mona Lisa is without a doubt the most famous work in the entire forty thousand year History of visual art.

maybe before but not any more.

The Mona Lisa was painted on poplar panel using oil paints. Da Vinci carried this piece of work around with him for many years, never truly finishing it. He would continue working on other pieces but always came back to this portrait. Da Vinci used a style of painting called sfmato, a technique employed to produce a smokey, shaded effect.

It's hanging in the Louvre gallery in Paris. Mona Lisa stands out amongst the great paintings for the detail in her hands, eyes, and lips. Da Vinci used a shadowing technique at the corners of her lips as well as the corners of her eyes which give her an extremely lifelike appearance and look of amusement.

More or less 2 years.

The Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo commissioned Leonardo to make this portrait of his wife, Lisa Gherardini.

The Louvre, Paris, France