5. An estate is exempt from Inheritance Tax if the deceased left everything to their husband, wife or civil partner, who lives permanently in the UK. Married couples and civil partners can give any value of gifts to each other during their lifetime without Inheritance Tax being due on them.
While most people are aware the Mona Lisa is also called La Gioconda by the Italians (translation: a light-hearted woman.), fewer know the French refer to it as La Joconde. Done in oils on poplar wood it was originally much larger than it is today.
Mona Lisa (Prado's version) The copy of the Mona Lisa is a painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa (which is held by the Louvre Museum, Paris). The copy painting has been displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid (Spain) since 1819, but was considered for decades a worthless copy.