"The Mona Lisa" could be the solution of the French government to mitigate its debt of $ 2 trillion, as the masterpiece of Leonardo Da Vinci would cost, according to current inflation, a trillion dollars, according to published France24 portal.
According to the average quoted, the French government is exploring the possibility of selling "La Gioconda" to reduce debt, however this would be difficult (or impossible) because in France, as in other countries, it is forbidden to sell art public.
"The Mona Lisa" was acquired by King Francis I of France in the early sixteenth century, and since then, is owned by the French State and currently exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The name of the work, "La Gioconda", derived from the most accepted about the identity of the model theory: the wife of Francesco Bartolomeo de Giocondo, who actually named Lisa Gherardini, hence its other name: Mona (Mrs. , the old Italian) Lisa.
It is an oil on poplar board 77 x 53 cm, painted between 1503 and 1519, and reworked several times by the author and is considered the most accomplished example of sfumato, Leonardo very characteristic of art.
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