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ELI5: Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?
gpt
Da Vinci was really only starting to become famous in the 1800s, 300 years after painting the Mona Lisa - and mostly because of two events: Napoleon liked the painting and hung it in his bedroom, and it was stolen. When it was stolen in 1911 there were 2 years of newspaper stories regarding it, until it was finally found in a Florence hotel. If this had not happened, it would be just another nice painting hanging in some museum.