The Secret Life of the Mona Lisa

BBC Four

1:45 AM to 2:45 AM

Tuesday 4 March

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Alan Yentob tells the story of how Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa became the most famous painting in the world. Admired by six million tourists every year, surrounded by bodyguards and encased in a humidified, air-conditioned box protected by bullet-proof glass, the enigmatic masterpiece has been stolen, vandalised and exploited over the centuries. With the help of leading scholars and original research, the subject of the portrait is finally revealed - along with the reason behind her inscrutable smile