The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci is Highly Overrated. Here’s Why.
It only became famous because of an unfortunate event that rocked the Louvre Museum in Paris.
“I can’t believe this is 3,000 bucks,” my husband pointed at a portrait in a furniture store’s display window.
“Damn, even I can paint better than that,” I quipped.
“Yes, you can,” my husband giggled.
My husband and I aren’t the artsy types.
We don’t see the value in paying thousands of dollars for an art piece that looks like something our 3-year-old would do if given a chance — stick his hands into a glob of paint and flick them onto a canvas.
But we do understand that there are people who appreciate art because they know about brush strokes, lighting, and whatever makes a piece of art valuable — like the Mona Lisa, a world-famous painting by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci, which is considered an “archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance.”
It has also been described as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.”
It’s even in the Guinness World Record for the highest-known painting insurance valuation in…
