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...room was tranquil. Mona Lisa, she of the moot smile, gazed placidly from the wall. Then, in a trice, a shadow fell and the picture was whisked out of the building...
This happened in 1911, when Leonardo's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Salon Carre of the Louvre...
...name of Man does not derive from its limited fauna but from the Latin name Mona. Its people are tall, Celtic, peaceable. In their looks there is none of that impish cruelty which is supposed by many to account for the condition of their cats. One of these last, a baleful creature with listless and ungraceful motions, attended the congress of the Manxmen, in the capacity of mascot...
...Anderson Galleries; other paintings, smaller ones, rested on cabinets or stood along the floor. The room was full of people, talking to each other in awed, foolish whispers. In the corner of the room sat a lady dressed in a black cloth coat, smiling like a severe Mona Lisa. She was Georgia O'Keeffe; the paintings on the wall belonged to her because she had made them; for some reason, the room seemed hers as well...
...precisely all these details, so that the appearance of the reproduction should be identical with the appearance of the original. In this purpose the Belvedere facsimiles succeeded to an amazing degree. From the walls of the small gallery in which the facsimiles were displayed, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa smiled down with an inscrutability which seemed no different from that which she bestows upon her admirers in the Louvre. The Blue Boy, Gainsborough's polite urchin, wore his own shiny silk breeches and not a shabby imitation. The cracks across a Michaelangelo fresco were so perfectly reproduced...