Difference between our Expectation and Reality in Touristic places

Mona Lisa Painting in Louvre Museum

This portrait was doubtless started in Florence around 1503. It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person who commissioned it. After his death, the painting entered François I's collection.In 1503, King Francois I fighting a war in Italy, was so impressed by Leonardo da Vinci that he invited him to France. Leonardo da Vinci painted Mona Lisa during his stay in France (1503 - 1506).Leonardo da Vinci died in 1519 in Clos Luce , near Amboise. Visit Clos Luce on a Loire castle tour from Paris.