Every document listing the painting could finally show what the painting looked like. For many people La Gioconda was disappointing, but it was too late the speech was already too big. Everyone wanted to see Leonardo di Vinci's greatest work of art. Today the Mona Lisa is equally popular. Almost everyone knows what it is. Songs and films have been made about the painting. People don't necessarily love it because it's a great painting, but mostly because it has such a mysterious history. People like to be able to look at it and try to understand things about it. This mysterious and exciting story behind the painting has made it the famous work that it is