[Essay] 1. Why is The Mona Lisa so famous? The Mona Lisa, one of the most important and well-known painting since the Renaissance period. This marvelous yet mysterious portrait was painted by one of the most important painter from the Italian Renaissance, the father of The High Renaissance. His name is Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci was a writer, a mathematician, an inventor, an architect, and an artist, he was a man with a curious mind, wanted to know everything around him, such as the anatomy of a human body and animals, the ways to ease his life with inventions, technologies, the laws of science and nature. He was interested in every field, ranging from biology, physics, mathematics and a myriad more. He filled his life with a lot of questions and set forth to find all the answers himself by performing researches, experimenting, observing and with every different kinds of way in order to fulfill his curiosity. As an artist, Leonardo ...