The ‘Mona Lisa’ is a portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, made between 1503-1506. It is in property of France and on permanent display in the Louvre in Paris. The painting is considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. The Mona Lisa’s novel qualities include the subject’s enigmatic expression, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms and the atmospheric illusionism.