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ELI5: Why is the Mona Lisa such a famous painting?

Not sure if this is the right subreddit to ask this, but I'd like to know why without hearing words like "impressionistic". Is it overrated?
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It was painted by the Florentine renaissance master Da Vinci. He used a special technique with oils to create thin glazes of color. Her face insinuates an emotion, like there is something going on off the canvas. This was one of the first well-known representations in Western art that acquires the sense of self. Art was very often used religiously so previous painters like Fra Filippo Lippi and Ghiberti were known for painting religious images. Though it is believed to be a rich person: Lisa Del Giocondo, it is not a god or someone in worship.

The sense of self and humanity is what makes this painting famous. It involves no Greek gods or anything involving the Cult of Christ like his predecessors.