The Mona Lisa
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The Mona Lisa and the Louvre
The Mona Lisa hangs on the walls of royal palaces for more than a century. But then that cloistered, aristocratic world comes under threat. The courtiers of Louis XIII said, no, don't do that. We keep the Mona Lisa. It's Leonardo is big shot just for Holbein and Titian. Everybody has a Titian. So the swap did not take place.
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