Who would have known during the 16th century that Leonardo da Vinci’s painting would have done so much news, films, novels, documentaries and songs in movies.

Dedicated to my friend:

Controversially, I made this video for my friend Nelly’s debate and her mysterious challenge about one of her painting she did for a smiling face of a singer from Montreal (Amanda Mabro) that was banned on a flimsier notion due to a capricious and mean reaction of this questionable and believed diva.

Nat King Cole’s song; Mona Lisa is an Academy Award-winning song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950).

The soundtrack version by Nat King Cole spent 8 weeks as number 1 in the Billboard chart in the USA in 1950.

Also, Cole's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992. In 1987, it was used as the theme of the British film Mona Lisa. An unaccredited version of Mona Lisa plays in the background of one scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954).

The famous painting: Mona Lisa (also known as La Giaconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci throughout the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the French government and hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France with the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giaconda.

The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a woman whose expression is often described as enigmatic.

The ambiguity of the sitter's expression, the monumentality of the half-figure composition, and the subtle modelling of forms and atmospheric illusion were novel qualities that have contributed to the painting's continuing fascination. Few other works of art have been subject to as much scrutiny, study, mythologising and parody.

Diana