Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)

It seems that the world fame of the paintings is not due to his artistic merit, and the controversies and mysteries that accompanied the picture, and special effects on males.
At the time, she so impressed Napoleon Bonaparte that he moved her from the Louvre in the Tuileries Palace and hung in his bedroom.
Mona Lisa is a simplified spelling of the name "Mona Lisa", which in turn is short for the word madonna ("my lady") is so well-known historian of the XVI century, Giorgio Vasari reverently spoke about the picture of Lisa Gherardino in his book "the life of the outstanding Italian architects, sculptors and artists."