Vintage View: Mona Lisa Smile

Kya deLongchamps pauses to consider the most enigmatic face in the World.

Last summer, feet a-throb on cruel, glorious parquet, make-up drooling from my chin, I beheld again Leonardo’s La Joconde.

Submerged behind several centimetres of bulletproof glass, she was cool as a Silvermint, gazing cross-eyed over the heads of a hundred Asian tourists distilling her essence through their mobile phones.