Copy of 'Mona Lisa'


Museum discovers earliest copy of 'Mona Lisa'

<br/>The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, has revealed what is believed to be the earliest copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
<br/>The painting -- discovered during restoration work on this portrait -- is thought to have been painted by a pupil of Leonardo around the same time as the original.- The earliest known copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" -- thought to have been painted at the same time as the original masterpiece -- has been discovered at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.
The work offers art-lovers a tantalizing hint of what the model for the world's most famous painting really looked like.
Conservators found the portrait hidden beneath layers of black overpainting during restoration work on a picture initially thought to have been a later replica of the "Mona Lisa."