Mona Lisa Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa (; or La Gioconda , ) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has 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". The "Mona Lisa" is also one of the most valuable paintings in the world. It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation in history at $100 million in 1962, which is worth nearly $800 million in 2017. The painting is thought to be a
Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci and in Budapest, in 1991. It also created the first CD-Rom dedicated to da Vinci, "Leonardo. The digital painting" (ACTA, 1989). The Museo Ideale Leonardo Da Vinci, in its role as a site of research, philological enquiry and creativity, pursues, among others, three major objectives: The museum is located in the Gallery that - with the Ancient Cellar of the Castle - housed a forerunner "Wine Museum" in the 19th century. This is recorded by Giuseppe Garibaldi's memories dated July- August 1868, where it is called "Museum Masetti" because it was part of the ownership of the counts Masetti da