A guard at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, does a double take of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (left) and a copy of the famous portrait.
A guard at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, does a double take of the Mona Lisa completed in the early 1500s by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci and a copy that was made of the most famous portrait in the history of art. This photograph was taken in 1963 prior to the priceless oil painting being placed in a climate-controlled enclosure behind bulletproof glass in 2005.
Size: 5172px × 3417px
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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