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#113-Hide Text In Image: Mona Lisas Will Never Be the Same

The portrait of Mona Lisa is considered a masterpiece of art, and that's not without reason. The portrait's subject was Lisa del Giocondo, an Italian noblewoman whose husband commissioned the portrait. The priceless Leonardo da Vinci painting that had the insurance valuation of $100 M ($822 M in 2018, inflation-adjusted) in 1962 has its own room at the Louvre . The painting exhibits Leonardo's skillful handling of sfumato and other artistic techniques and is a testament to the fact that he is the greatest artist of all time. It is no surprise that the painting is viewed by over 6 M people every year. Da Vinci worked on the portrait for sixteen long years, 1503-19. Mona Lisa definitely was not drawn in a day. It is said the Da Vinci never really finished it. There's a reason Mona Lisas floating online might never be the same again. In this digital age, we are submerged in a sea of images. In 2014, people uploaded around 1.8 B images to the internet every day on a...