{"id":7446,"date":"2024-04-27T15:12:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2024-04-27T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:42:36","slug":"louvre-says-mona-lisa-could-get-a-room-of-her-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=7446","title":{"rendered":"Louvre says Mona Lisa could get a room of her own"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline_content_block post_template-0\">\n<div class=\"headline_section mb-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"dtl_part\" class=\"dtl_section\">\n<p>The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the world&#8217;s most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum&#8217;s president said on Saturday. Such a move would give visitors, many of whom visit the Louvre for the iconic painting alone, a better experience, Laurence des Cars told the France Inter broadcaster. &#8220;It&#8217;s always frustrating when you don&#8217;t give visitors the best possible reception, and that is the case for the Mona Lisa,&#8221; she said. &#8220;A better solution seems necessary to me today,&#8221; she said, adding that the Louvre was in contact with the culture ministry about potential solutions. The Louvre, the world&#8217;s most popular museum, welcomed close to nine million visitors in 2023. Des Cars said 80 percent of them &#8212; 20,000 people per day &#8212; braved the crowd to catch a glimpse of the Mona Lisa&#8217;s enigmatic smile, often taking selfies in front of the painting. The Mona Lisa currently hangs in the Louvre&#8217;s Salle des Etats (State Room), the museum&#8217;s biggest, in a protective glass case, but Da Vinci&#8217;s masterwork is not alone there. It is accompanied by works by 16th-century Venetian masters, and across the room hangs the Louvre&#8217;s biggest painting, The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the world&#8217;s most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum&#8217;s president said on Saturday. Such a move would give visitors, many of whom visit the Louvre for the iconic painting alone, a better experience, Laurence des Cars told the France Inter broadcaster. &#8220;It&#8217;s always frustrating when you don&#8217;t give visitors the best possible reception, and that is the case for the Mona Lisa,&#8221; she said. &#8220;A better solution seems necessary to me today,&#8221; she said, adding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}