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  • The Thinker bears about the same relation to sculpture as the Mona Lisa does to painting, or "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" to poetry -- a great work of art that has become hard to see for itself, buried under banal associations and dumb jokes.†   (source)
  • She is also known as La Gioconda, or the Mona Lisa, a wife and mother of five children who sat for this portrait in the early sixteenth century.†   (source)
  • "Not me, I guess," Veronica says, handing me a stack of magazines, a book of word games, and an old jigsaw-puzzle box of the Mona Lisa, whose famous mien, I am beginning to think, is the expression of a young woman concealing a pure feeling of joy.†   (source)
  • The images came faster now …. da Vinci's Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • "If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • She had seen pictures of the Mona Lisa in books and didn't like it at all.†   (source)
  • Was she supposed to visit the Mona Lisa?†   (source)
  • And that, my friends, is Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa's knowing smile.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Langdon saw a faint purple glimmer on the protective glass before the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • The text seemed to hover in space, casting a jagged shadow across Mona Lisa's mysterious smile.†   (source)
  • Jacques Saunière had indeed paid a visit to the Mona Lisa before he died.†   (source)
  • He easily could have visited the Mona Lisa before he died.†   (source)
  • The fleur-de-lis… the flower of Lisa… the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Is it true that the Mona Lisa is a picture of Da Vinci in drag?†   (source)
  • She looked back at the Mona Lisa and shook her head.†   (source)
  • On the glass, six words glowed in purple, scrawled directly across the Mona Lisa's face.†   (source)
  • Sophie looked baffled in the glow of the message scrawled across the Mona Lisa's face.†   (source)
  • After everything she'd heard about the Mona Lisa, she felt as if she were approaching royalty.†   (source)
  • "Mona Lisa… holy crap," somebody gasped.†   (source)
  • She pictured the message scrawled on the protective glass of the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa was, in fact, one of the world's most documented inside jokes.†   (source)
  • Whatever Da Vinci was up to," Langdon said, "his Mona Lisa is neither male nor female.†   (source)
  • Her hair is pulled back off her forehead and her lips are creased in a Mona Lisa smile.†   (source)
  • But this is hardly the first time the Mona Lisa has traveled.†   (source)
  • Long before the Cuban missile crisis was over, he began arranging the Mona Lisa's trip to America.†   (source)
  • Thus it is almost natural that Secret Service protection be extended to the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • On this night, it is the First Lady, not the Mona Lisa, who owns the room.†   (source)
  • The glamour surrounding the Mona Lisa has temporarily overshadowed the fear of the cold war.†   (source)
  • Close encounters with history always left Langdon numbed with reverence …. like seeing the brushstrokes on the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • I could still see her smiling at me with half of Mona Lisa's smirk, but I couldn't picture her hands well enough to see her holding a cigarette.†   (source)
  • A boy with lime-colored hair who looks like he's channeling for an alien species dozes; two Goths in black velvet dresses and artfully torn pantyhose trade Mona Lisa smiles.†   (source)
  • The art museum is called the Louvre and it's shaped like a pyramid and the Mona Lisa lives there along with that statue of the woman missing her arms.†   (source)
  • And he told me, and I have to say, Alaska left us with the crown jewel of pranks, the Mona Lisa of high-school hilarity, the culmination of generations of Culver Creek pranking.†   (source)
  • Quite simply, the Mona Lisa was famous because Leonardo da Vinci claimed she was his finest accomplishment.†   (source)
  • By lowering the countryside on the left, Da Vinci made Mona Lisa look much larger from the left side than from the right side.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female.†   (source)
  • Two years later, the Mona Lisa was discovered hidden in the false bottom of a trunk in a Florence hotel room.†   (source)
  • Slowly, as if moving underwater, Langdon turned his head and gazed through the reddish haze toward the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • The Da Vinci she had grabbed, much like the Mona Lisa, was notorious among art historians for its plethora of hidden pagan symbolism.†   (source)
  • I think my grandfather may have left me a message at the Mona Lisa—some kind of clue as to who killed him.†   (source)
  • The Grand Master's previous solutions had all possessed an eloquent, symbolic significance—the Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, SOFIA.†   (source)
  • Saunière's clever anagrammatic message was still on his mind, and Langdon wondered what Sophie would find at the Mona Lisa… if anything.†   (source)
  • "As strange as it may sound," Sophie said, "I think he wants me to get to the Mona Lisa before anyone else does."†   (source)
  • "My grandfather was here," Sophie said, dropping suddenly to her knees, now only ten feet from the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa's status as the most famous piece of art in the world, Langdon knew, had nothing to do with her enigmatic smile.†   (source)
  • Sophie arrived breathless outside the large wooden doors of the Salle des Etats—the room that housed the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Security warden Claude Grouard simmered with rage as he stood over his prostrate captive in front of the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Quickly striding the final few steps to the Mona Lisa, she illuminated the floor directly in front of the painting.†   (source)
  • Most recently Langdon had shared the Mona Lisa's secret with a rather unlikely group—a dozen inmates at the Essex County Penitentiary.†   (source)
  • Because Da Vinci was a big fan of feminine principles, he made Mona Lisa look more majestic from the left than the right.†   (source)
  • Even so, many art historians suspected Da Vinci's reverence for the Mona Lisa had nothing to do with its artistic mastery.†   (source)
  • Despite her monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches—smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.†   (source)
  • As Sophie recalled her first childhood visit to the Denon Wing, she realized that if her grandfather had a secret to tell her, few places on earth made a more apt rendezvous than Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Maybe Da Vinci's plethora of tantalizing clues was nothing but an empty promise left behind to frustrate the curious and bring a smirk to the face of his knowing Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa was still twenty yards ahead when Sophie turned on the black light, and the bluish crescent of penlight fanned out on the floor in front of them.†   (source)
  • When Sophie was a little girl, no trip to the Mona Lisa had been complete without her grandfather dragging her across the room to see this second painting.†   (source)
  • Still others claimed that X rays of the Mona Lisa revealed she originally had been painted wearing a lapis lazuli pendant of Isis—a detail Da Vinci purportedly later decided to paint over.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci was a prankster, and computerized analysis of the Mona Lisa and Da Vinci's self-portraits confirm some startling points of congruency in their faces.†   (source)
  • He can't transmit, Sophie realized, recalling that tourists with cell phones often got frustrated in here when they tried to call home to brag about seeing the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • "You may notice," Langdon told them, walking up to the projected image of the Mona Lisa on the library wall, "that the background behind her face is uneven."†   (source)
  • As Grouard inched backward, he could see the woman across the room raising her UV light and scrutinizing a large painting that hung on the far side of the Salle des Etats, directly opposite the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Standing at an overhead projector in a darkened penitentiary library, Langdon had shared the Mona Lisa's secret with the prisoners attending class, men whom he found surprisingly engaged—rough, but sharp.†   (source)
  • Since taking up residence in the Louvre, the Mona Lisa—or La Jaconde as they call her in France—had been stolen twice, most recently in 1911, when she disappeared from the Louvre's "satte impénétrable"—Le Salon Carre.†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa!†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Despite the estimated five days it would take a visitor to properly appreciate the 65,300 pieces of art in this building, most tourists chose an abbreviated experience Langdon referred to as "Louvre Lite"—a full sprint through the museum to see the three most famous objects: the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory.†   (source)
  • To the Mona Lisa?†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa!†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Upon docking in New York, the Mona Lisa is driven to Washington, D.C., by a special Secret Service motorcade that does not stop for any reason.†   (source)
  • On January 27, 1963, as crowds ten abreast line the streets of Washington to view the Mona Lisa, Oswald orders a .†   (source)
  • Even as the Mona Lisa is unveiled in America, the leader of the assassination plot is on trial in Paris.†   (source)
  • Yet there is one huge difference between protecting the president and protecting this precious cargo: the Mona Lisa is just a painting.†   (source)
  • Should the luxury liner go down, the special metal case containing the Mona Lisa is designed to float.†   (source)
  • Upon arrival in Washington, the Mona Lisa is locked behind steel doors in a climate-controlled vault that keeps the temperature at a perfect 62 degrees at all hours.†   (source)
  • Far dearer than the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • But when word finally leaks out about the box's true contents, passengers transform the ship into a nonstop Mona Lisa party, complete with special pastry cakes and drinking games.†   (source)
  • Jackie revels in the Mona Lisa's presence with a feeling of profound success, for it was her persistent dream to bring the world's most famous painting to the National Gallery of Art, in Washington.†   (source)
  • Even as the president's speech brilliantly links the Mona Lisa and the politics of the cold war, it is Jackie who orchestrates every last detail of this very special night.†   (source)
  • Secret Service snipers are stationed on rooftops along the way, and Secret Service agent John Campion personally rides next to the Mona Lisa in the black "National Gallery of Art" van.†   (source)
  • John Walker, director of the National Gallery, was against the loan, fearful that his career would be ruined if he failed to protect the Mona Lisa from theft or the damage that might accompany moving a fragile 460-year-old painting across an ocean in the dead of winter.†   (source)
  • The Mona Lisa may be dazzling—hidden though she is behind bulletproof glass—but the average partygoer spends only fifteen seconds staring at the painting, while some spend all night staring at Jackie.†   (source)
  • January comes to an end, and with it the Mona Lisa's stay in Washington, D.C. On February 4 another high-security motorcade drives the painting to New York, where "Mona Mania" reaches even greater heights.†   (source)
  • Only the captain of the SS France is told that the Mona Lisa is on board, and security is so intense as she is brought on that guests speculate that the metal box actually holds a secret nuclear device.†   (source)
  • "Politics and art, the life of action and the life of thought, the world of events and the world of imagination, are one," John Kennedy tells the distinguished crowd on hand for the unveiling of the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Francie couldn't help noticing that Mama was smiling sidewise, the way the lady did in the picture in the school auditorium, the one they called Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • IS THE PORTRAIT OF MONA LISA GOOD IF I DESIRE TO SEE IT?†   (source)
  • "You're quite right, Walter Pater is the only justification for Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • She showed him Mona Lisa.†   (source)
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