All 3 Uses of
Mona Lisa
in
Looking for Alaska
- And the way her mouth curled up on the right side all the time, like she was preparing to smirk, like she'd mastered the right half of the Mona Lisa's inimitable smile...
p. 30.6 *Mona Lisa = Leonardo da Vinci's painting of a woman with an "enigmatic smile"
- 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.
p. 173.2
- 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.
p. 200.0Mona Lisa = possibly the most famous of any painting
Definition:
perhaps the most famous art piece in history; Leonardo da Vinci's painting of a woman who is often described as having an "enigmatic smile"