The Mona Lisa

G : What are you looking at, Billy? B : This is a copy of my favorite painting. It’s the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. G : Why is that your favorite painting? B : Well, there are a few things that make the Mona Lisa great. First, she has no eyebrows. Second, she has a really beautiful smile. Most of all, I like the soft colors of the painting. Have you seen the Mona Lisa before? It is a very famous painting! G : Of course! I’ve seen the painting a few times before. But I never noticed that her eyebrows are missing. I wonder why she has no eyebrows. Do you know why? B : At the time da Vinci painted it, it was fashionable for young Italian girls to shave off their eyebrows. Every girl wanted to be fashionable. G : Wow! That’s really interesting! In what year was the Mona Lisa painted? B : I think it was painted sometime between 1503 and 1505. G : I wonder what a modern Mona Lisa would look like. B : She might have purple hair!