Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has sparked countless theories—from the well-established to the far-fetched. But a set of 16th- and 17th-century copies, scattered in collections from Russia to Spain, complicate the mystery of the world’s most famous painting.
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Louvre, Paris
Prado Mona Lisa (Prado Museum, Madrid)
Islesworth Mona Lisa (private collection)
Hekking Mona Lisa (private collection)
Hermitage Mona Lisa (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Walters Mona Lisa (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA)
Oslo Mona Lisa (National Museum, Oslo)
"Reynolds" Mona Lisa (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
Liverpool Mona Lisa (National Museums, Liverpool)
Alte Pinakothek Mona Lisa (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
Quimper Mona Lisa (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper)
17th-century Mona Lisa (Private collection, sold at Sothebys in 2020)
Were you aware of the strange and wondrous world of these “other Mona Lisas” before? What do you make of these lesser-known renditions of Leonardo’s original masterpiece?
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