Mona Lisa's earliest 'twin' found

A Spanish museum has discovered a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” that one of his students painted in the studio where the masterpiece was completed.

Mona Lisa's earliest 'twin' found

A Spanish museum has discovered a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” that one of his students painted in the studio where the masterpiece was completed.

A spokeswoman for Madrid’s Prado said the copy was done alongside the 16th-century original, which now hangs in the Louvre in Paris, apparently making it the earliest replica of the work ever found.

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