Was the Model for Mona Lisa a Man?
Call her "Manny Lisa"? Italian researchers say the model for the world's most famous painting may have been a male apprentice and also a lover of the artist, Leonardo da Vinci.
The identity of the Mona Lisa, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris and...
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