The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art. Leonardo da Vinci is the creator of this master piece. It is said that when he was 14, Leonardo had painted the picture of a dragon that looked so real that it actually scared his father. Leonardo da Vinci is considered one of the greatest artists and thinkers of all time. In addition to his paintings, da Vinci was an accomplished sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. The painting shows a beautiful woman seated on an arm chair on a balcony. Behind her, a landscape can be seen. Leonardo has seated her so that the figure seems almost alive. Her smile is mysterious, and nothing in the painting appears fixed. All the shapes seem to sway and flow gently into one another, and the figure and landscape are perfectly harmonized. Experts believe Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa in Italy over a long period beginning about 1505.
