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of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. We all know it, the most famous smile in the world,

slightly mischievous, slightly disapproving, entirely enigmatic.

It's the Mona Lisa smile, and we know all about the painting's famous creator, Leonardo da Vinci.

You may also know about the painting's theft from the Louvre in 1911.

But what do you know about the woman depicted in the painting?

Well, she's probably the Italian noblewoman Lisa del Jukondo.

And it's a bit shocking that the most famous painting in the world

is of a woman whose name we're not really sure of. Or maybe it's not bit shocking that the most famous painting in the world is of a woman whose name

we're not really sure of, or maybe it's not shocking at all.

On today's Saturday matinee, we're bringing you an episode from the podcast Art Mews,

which discusses perhaps the second most famous woman in painting,

whomever, is standing in the clamshell of Sandra Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.

Art Muse shares the life stories of the women pictured in famous works of art,

aiming to reshape the ways in which these well-known works are interpreted by paying attention

to the women whose images have been immortalized but whose names and stories have been overlooked.

I hope you enjoy. While you're listening, be sure to search for

and follow Art Muse. We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you.

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