The Bowry Boys episode 405, the Mona Lisa, comes to New York.

Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.

Hey.

Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.

And I'm Tom Myers.

And Greg, following the fun that we just had, you know, chasing Edward Hopper all over New York City,

we decided to cap off this month of New York art history with a return visit

to America's largest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Now back in the year 2020, remember that year?

Way back then.

Episode 341, we actually explored the history of the Met on its 150th anniversary.

The museum was incorporated by the State of New York in 1870, opened its first exhibitions

in 1872, and then finally moved to its new home in Central Park in the year 1880.

And from that moment, the museum has only expanded in size and scope.

Today containing hundreds of thousands of valuable works of art.

And 60 years ago this month, in February of 1963, the Met made room for one more painting.

Perhaps the world's most famous painting of them all, the enigmatic Mona Lisa,

painted by Leonardo da Vinci in about 1503.

And since 1804, she's called the Louvre Home in Paris.

And honestly, it's really kind of hard to believe today that the Louvre would ever loan out

its most famous work of art.

Yeah, it's not as easy as some people would have you think.

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