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{{quote|"...in this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as alive as the original"|Giorgio Vasari, Lives of The Artists (trans. George Bull)}}

 

 

 

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== Anime ==

* Yoshinoya-sensei from [[Hidamari Sketch]] has the painting.

 

* Parodied outright in ''Asterix & Obelix & Cleopatra.'' To their credit, Monica Bellucci makes a hot Mona Lisa.

* In the Spanish short film ''La Gioconda Esta Triste'' (''The Mona Lisa is Sad'') the Mona Lisa stops smiling, ''and so does every single painted, drawn, photographed or videotaped reproduction of the painting''. Not only that, but at the same time everyone on Earth also forgets how to smile. Against a background of international tension, environmental destruction and terrorist threats scientists try to solve the mystery. They finally conclude that the Mona Lisa's sadness represents that of the entire world, and only way to save the world is for everybody to try to smile again. {{spoiler|But it's too late - everybody starts weeping, and the world ends.}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Parodied in [[The Far Side]], with a painting of some guy with a gigantic nose and one of the viewers comments "Gad that's eerie, wherever you go the nose follows you!"

* [[Discworld]]'s Mona Ogg, painted by Leonard of Quirm, and implied to be of the witch Nanny Ogg in her younger days. The ''teeth'' follow you around the room.

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* Used a few times in Terry Gilliam's animations for ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.

* Mona is taken out of her portrait so Alex can cheat on a test in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''. She ends up going back in wearing one of Harper's home made necklaces.

* She also comes out of her portrait in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. She [[And I Must Scream|traps people in paintings]] and searches for her "brother", another painting made using the same oils.

* In Spaceship Earth at Epcot, one scene is the lady posing for the painting and rapidly losing her patience because Leonardo keeps on getting distracted by other projects.

* In the card game ''[[Chrononauts]]'', there are a set of three Artifact cards: Mona Lisa (Obvious Forgery), Mona Lisa (Excellent Forgery) and Mona Lisa (Real Thing). When more than one is in play, the Excellent Forgery trumps the Obvious Forgery, while the Real Thing beats both.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* There's also a mission in ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' where the agents help "Leo" paint his masterpiece. Try and guess what it is.

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* [[Daria]] has a Mona Lisa smile, a description popular in [[Fanfic]].

** In a Pepe Le Pew cartoon, "Louvre Come Back To Me", Pepe pursues his hapless female victim through the Louvre, finally chasing her through the museum air-vents. His distinctive aroma drifts through the museum, humorously damaging assorted masterpieces. The last shot is the Mona Lisa, speaking to the audience; "I can tell you chaps one thing, it's not always easy keeping this smile."

* [[Courage the Cowardly Dog]] - the family visits the Louvre, and Muriel ends up being trapped in the Mona Lisa when a series of events causes all of the works of art to come alive.

* Street artist Banksy has a work with Mona Lisa holding a rocket-propelled grenade on her shoulder.

* Marcel Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q" is Mona Lisa, with a goattee and a mustache drawn on, and the letters LHOOQ (a french slang accronym meaning roughly "she has a hot ass")

 

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