Mona Lisa 
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3/17/19
Why is the Mona Lisa not the Mona Lisa?
by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown
New research suggests the famous painting in the Louvre does not depict Mona Lisa.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
12-8-15
Secret Portrait Hidden Under Mona Lisa, Claims French Scientist
Pascal Cotte, a French scientist, claims to have found another portrait beneath that of the world-famous Mona Lisa using reflective light technology.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11-12-13
Did the Nazis steal the Mona Lisa?
The extraordinary tale of the Nazi art thieves believed to have stashed the world's most famous painting in an alpine salt mine.
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SOURCE: Toronto Globe and Mail
8-9-13
Florence tomb opened in search for identity of Mona Lisa
Researchers opened a centuries-old Florence tomb on Friday in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo da Vinci immortalized in the Mona Lisa, one of the world’s most famous paintings.A round hole, just big enough for a person to wriggle through, was cut in the stone church floor above the family crypt of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, whose wife, Lisa Gherardini, is thought to have sat for the Renaissance master in the early 16th century....
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