Widely considered as the most famous painting of all time, Mona Lisa is a portrait painting by Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo worked on this picture as a scholar and thinker, not only as a painter and poet. In his Mona Lisa, the individual, a miraculous creation of nature, represents at the same time the species: the portrait goes beyond its social limitations and acquires a universal meaning. Before Leonardo da Vinci, portraits had lacked mystery; artists only represented outward appearances without any soul, or, if they showed the soul, they tried to express it through gestures, symbolic objects or inscriptions. The Mona Lisa alone is a living enigma: the soul is there, but inaccessible.

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