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"Just like the Mona Lisa's," said the girl.† (source)

"My grandfather probably created this Mona Lisa anagram long ago," Sophie said, glancing up at Langdon.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I am dying to try a different subject, something easy like designing an entire city or copying the Mona Lisa, but he won't budge.† (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, 1999

The exchange rates — one Mona Lisa equalled Bergen-Belsen, one Armenian genocide equalled the Ninth Symphony plus three Great Pyramids — were suggested, but there was room for haggling.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

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 ... From my room, the student population seemed manageable, but it overwhelmed me in the classroom area, which was a single, long building just beyond the dorm circle.† (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building.† (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

It would be like putting a veil on the Mona Lisa.† (source)

It was a Mona Lisa smile, the meaning of which no one could figure out.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

You'd look at a silver chalice or a marble statue or the Mona Lisa or whatever, and admire it for its beauty and historical importance and everything—and then you'd reach for the price tag and gasp, "Hey, look how much this one is!"† (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)

Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967.† (source)

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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)

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)

"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) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999

The images came faster now ....da Vinci's Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

Whatever Da Vinci was up to," Langdon said, "his Mona Lisa is neither male nor female.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

And that, my friends, is Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa's knowing smile.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

She pictured the message scrawled on the protective glass of the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Is it true that the Mona Lisa is a picture of Da Vinci in drag?† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

On the glass, six words glowed in purple, scrawled directly across the Mona Lisa's face.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

She looked back at the Mona Lisa and shook her head.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"Mona Lisa...holy crap," somebody gasped.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

At that moment, Langdon saw a faint purple glimmer on the protective glass before the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Jacques Saunière had indeed paid a visit to the Mona Lisa before he died.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

He easily could have visited the Mona Lisa before he died.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The text seemed to hover in space, casting a jagged shadow across Mona Lisa's mysterious smile.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

After everything she'd heard about the Mona Lisa, she felt as if she were approaching royalty.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

She had seen pictures of the Mona Lisa in books and didn't like it at all.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Sophie looked baffled in the glow of the message scrawled across the Mona Lisa's face.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The fleur-de-lis...the flower of Lisa...the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Those were not his final words.... Was she supposed to visit the Mona Lisa?† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Mona Lisa was, in fact, one of the world's most documented inside jokes.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Her hair is pulled back off her forehead and her lips are creased in a Mona Lisa smile.† (source)

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.† (source)

The glamour surrounding the Mona Lisa has temporarily overshadowed the fear of the cold war.† (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)

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)

Close encounters with history always left Langdon numbed with reverence ....like seeing the brushstrokes on the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

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) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

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) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, 1999

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) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

The Grand Master's previous solutions had all possessed an eloquent, symbolic significance—the Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, SOFIA.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Slowly, as if moving underwater, Langdon turned his head and gazed through the reddish haze toward the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Security warden Claude Grouard simmered with rage as he stood over his prostrate captive in front of the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I think my grandfather may have left me a message at the Mona Lisa—some kind of clue as to who killed him.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Saunière's clever anagrammatic message was still on his mind, and Langdon wondered what Sophie would find at the Mona Lisa...if anything.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Because Da Vinci was a big fan of feminine principles, he made Mona Lisa look more majestic from the left than the right.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Two years later, the Mona Lisa was discovered hidden in the false bottom of a trunk in a Florence hotel room.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Quickly striding the final few steps to the Mona Lisa, she illuminated the floor directly in front of the painting.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Sophie arrived breathless outside the large wooden doors of the Salle des Etats—the room that housed the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Da Vinci she had grabbed, much like the Mona Lisa, was notorious among art historians for its plethora of hidden pagan symbolism.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"My grandfather was here," Sophie said, dropping suddenly to her knees, now only ten feet from the Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Even so, many art historians suspected Da Vinci's reverence for the Mona Lisa had nothing to do with its artistic mastery.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"As strange as it may sound," Sophie said, "I think he wants me to get to the Mona Lisa before anyone else does."† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Quite simply, the Mona Lisa was famous because Leonardo da Vinci claimed she was his finest accomplishment.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Most recently Langdon had shared the Mona Lisa's secret with a rather unlikely group—a dozen inmates at the Essex County Penitentiary.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Mona Lisa!† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

To the Mona Lisa?† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Mona Lisa.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Mona Lisa!† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I still haven't seen 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)

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)

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)

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)

On January 27, 1963, as crowds ten abreast line the streets of Washington to view the Mona Lisa, Oswald orders a .38 Special revolver through the mail.† (source)

Far dearer than the Mona Lisa.† (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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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