Mona Lisa Moves Back to Louvre

World | April 5, 2005, Tuesday // 00:00

The world famous Mona Lisa is due to move back to Paris' Louvre art gallery on Wednesday, four years after refurbishment work began. Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old masterpiece will be hung alone on a wall in the museum's Salle des Etats. The Salle has had a EUR 4.8 M renovation to provide a suitable home for the masterpiece. It will allow visitors more room to gaze in comfort on the Mona Lisa, which will be hung alone on a false wall in an area dedicated to 16th-century Italian paintings. The painting, which measures just 53 cm by 76 cm, will again be hung behind non-reflective, unbreakable glass to protect it from climatic changes, camera flashes and wilful damage.

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