...and because on this day, 500 years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci died... I thought you might like this small collection of Mona Lisa parodies. The Mona Lisa ( Italian: Monna Lisa or La Gioconda , French: La Joconde ) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world." The Mona Lisa is also one of the most valuable p