Why the Mona Lisa is so prominent and overated ?

Why Mona Lisa is so, so famous. Is it really that much appealing or exquisite? Five centuries after Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa(1503–19), the portrait hangs behind bulletproof glass within the Louvre Museum and draws thousands of jostling spectators each day.

Mona Lisa is so famous that the director of the Louvre, where Mona Lisa live, said that 80% of their visitors are only there to see that one painting.

If you don’t think Mona Lisa is simply better then the rest of the paintings, her story reveals something more interesting, something that made Mona Lisa part of a wider culture star and it might have never happened if Mona Lisa hadn’t disappeared.

Before Mona Lisa became a symbol of the culture, before she disappeared, one critic

Walter pater

Walter Pater name Mona Lisa work of Art, And it was also noticed that Walter Pater was insanely in love this painting. Walter Pater’s book, The Renaissance, 1873 came out after 350 years after Leonardo the Vinci painted Mona Lisa, the book defined the painting for Victorians some of the highlights from the book “ The animalism of Greece” and “ She is older then the rocks among which she sits like to the Vampire, She has been died many times”. And people loved this stuff. Other critics jumped on and said Mona is a popular secular painting that they could analyze, unlike the Vinci’s Last Supper.

    But even at her peak Mona Lisa was just some famous painting, not the most famous Painting of all time. In 1910 she was the second most famous painting in the Louvre after Raphael's Sistine Madonna. It took a real robbery to make Mona famous art to mass culture icon.

Vincenzo Peruggia

On August 21, 1911, one of the former Louvre worker name Vincenzo Peruggia, he lifted Mona Lisa and took it home. The painting went missing for 2 years, and every time press writes something about Mona Lisa they also called it the greatest painting there ever was. Press speculated that Mona’s smile the thief crazy and he couldn’t resist daydreaming about Mona’s smile. Thousand’s of people went to the Louvre just to see the empty hooks hanging on the wall. This robbery was like an advertisement Campaign which lasted for almost 2 years. This curiosity made Mona something really big, this curiosity didn’t end for two years as someone couldn’t just google “Mona Lisa before it was stolen”.

When Vincenzo Peruggia was caught, he said that he was taking Mona back to native Italy, but the time he was caught this art was already the most famous painting in the world, due to her absence.

When Mona Lisa left her home she was a masterpiece, but when she returned back to the Louvre, she was not just an art rather a symbol of culture, bigger and better than before

She is famous not because of the way she is painted but because of what we see in her.