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© Sylvie Ball

Viewing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre is difficult.  The painting is behind glass and is illuminated only for a minute or two with a fluorescent bulb.  Then a timer shuts it off for 15 minutes while the crowd stands and waits for the cycle to begin again and when it does, they surge forward.  In the midst of the melé, I dared to get this shot.  

Mona Lisa's eyes calmly gaze out far above the jostling crowd.  

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Leonardo da Vinci  (1452-1519)
Mona Lisa  1510-1515
oil on wood
77 x 53 cm