A copy of the Mona Lisa has been given pride of place in Italy’s parliament after some experts said it may bear the brushstrokes of Leonardo da Vinci.
The Rome Mona Lisa, also known as the Torlonia Gioconda after its aristocratic former owners, had long been attributed to the master’s workshop but features a woman with an enigmatic smile who is younger and paler than the one in the masterpiece in the Louvre.
However, details of the landscape are closer to the original than in any other known reproduction.
The painting has been moved from the office of Francesco D’Uva, a Five Star MP and chief parliamentary commissioner, and put on prominent display in a hall dedicated to the former prime minister Aldo Moro, who
