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After nearly 50 years in business, an iconic San Francisco restaurant is closing its doors. The Mona Lisa Restaurant, a fixture in the city’s North Beach neighborhood since 1979, will serve its final meal on Friday.
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Has Anyone Seen the Mona Lisa?
The Mona Lisa is the most widely recognised and most famous painting ever. Although the King of France, Francis I, and Napoleon Bonaparte both fell in love with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, she ended up in the Louvre,
It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an Italian mason named Vincenzo Peruggia carried out the most astounding art heist in modern times when he stole the Mona Lisa during the day, around 7 am.
The iconic Mona Lisa Restaurant in San Francisco is closing by the end of the week after nearly five decades in business.
Leonardo da Vinci started the iconic 'Mona Lisa' painting in Italy but finished it in France, where he sold it to the French King, François I.
Art possesses the special ability to captivate human emotion, imagination, and cultural history in a manner that is impossible to convey through words. Throughout the centuries, some art pieces have become renowned worldwide,
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Iconic Landmarks That Disappoint in Person
Every traveler has a mental bucket list. You know the one — those postcard-perfect places you’ve seen in movies, history books, or Instagram feeds that you absolutely must visit before you die. The Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile,