Recognise 100 famous paintings and prints, from the Mona Lisa to The Great Wave, and know who made each one and where to see it. For museum-goers and art lovers starting from zero, from Giotto to Mondrian.
Leonardo worked on it from about 1503 until close to his death in 1519, in oil on a poplar panel. The sitter is usually identified as Lisa Gherardini, wife of the Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, hence its Italian name La Gioconda. Its theft from the Louvre in 1911 and its return in 1913 made it world news. Also accepted: La Gioconda; La Joconde.
