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mona lisa and her silk merchant husband[edit]

Lisa Ghiradhino who is widely suspected of being the Mona Lisa is dressed in silk. Her husband was a silk merchant. The curved top of her head with a silk veil on it is the shape of one end of a silkworm cocoon ,the serpent shaped winding road is the silk road perhaps,the sharp rocks symbolize the tooth warps of the time that helped keep the warp even, her hands and skin are like silk,the aqueduct over her shoulder symbolizes water used to drive a mill wheel in silk manufacture in the 15th century.The hot colour of the painting is the heat used to get the silk from the cocoon. The Mona Lisa is probably all about silk. Alex-the-grate2 (talk)Alex-the-grate2

Semi-protected edit request on 1 July 2016[edit]

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My edit request is quite simple. Reference one, the hyperlink is dead.

John Lichfield, The Moving of the Mona Lisa, The Independent, 2005-04-02 (Retrieved 9 March 2012)

I would like to update the link to point at

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-moving-of-the-mona-lisa-530771.html

Thank you for your time. Joe Flynn

Semi-protected edit request on 25 October 2023[edit]

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Yuyukiformats 06 (talk) 16:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If this painting is popular, I will add this to "Internet memes" section.

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. There is also no "Internet memes" section on the page, I'm not sure what you mean by that. Tollens (talk) 00:35, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It has NOT been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797.[edit]

The lede states that "it has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797," but that sentence is clearly wrong and needs to be removed or reworded. Aside from the fact that - according to this very same article - "during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the painting was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal," the Mona Lisa was missing for 2 years after being stolen in 1911. Then we read that "during World War II, it was again removed from the Louvre and taken first to the Château d'Amboise, then to the Loc-Dieu Abbey and Château de Chambord, then finally to the Musée Ingres in Montauban," that "from December 1962 to March 1963, the French government lent it to the United States to be displayed in New York City and Washington, D.C.", and that "in 1974, the painting was exhibited in Tokyo and Moscow." Some people only read the lede of an article and those people are going to come away mistakenly believing that ... well ... that the Mona Lisa has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797, when that simply isn't true... FillsHerTease (talk) 19:27, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I think a "normally" will cover it. No doubt they've often removed it for inspection and conservation, as museums usually do. Johnbod (talk) 19:44, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I didn't want to edit an article as important as this. I wasn't even sure if I would be able to!

FillsHerTease (talk) 03:04, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mona Lisa and Madison Elizabeth[edit]

I like the Mona Lisa a lot because it sounds like my name. Mona is short for Madonna, which sounds like Madison. Lisa is short for Elisabeta, which sounds like Elizabeth. I also look like the lady in the Mona Lisa. Madison Elizabeth Michelle (talk) 15:50, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]