Famous work · not an exact-location map point
Mona Lisa
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
This famous work does not have a single exact real-world viewpoint. The connection below explains its actual relationship to the real world.
- Date
- 1503-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Location relations
Each kind of real-world link is kept separate — a documented viewpoint is never merged with a depicted place or a creation location.
Created in this area — general area
Florence
Where the original is now
Department of Paintings of the Louvre
In the collection of Department of Paintings of the Louvre
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- Musée du Louvre, Paris — collection record for Leonardo da Vinci, ‘Portrait de Lisa Gherardini, épouse de Francesco del Giocondo, dite La Joconde / Monna Lisa’, Département des Peintures, inv. INV 779 (also MR 316); c. 1503–19, oil on poplar, 77 × 53 cm (collections.louvre.fr)
- Vincent Delieuvin & the Département des Peintures, ‘La Joconde’ dossier (Louvre); Frank Zöllner, ‘Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings’ (Taschen), cat. no. XXII
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