Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass

Seen by more than 20,000 people each day, the Mona Lisa is kept permanently in protective casing due to its fragility, at the Louvre’s Salle des États. Through VR, the Louvre is now able to feature this world’s best-known painting in its retrospective of da Vinci’s work, while offering visitors a chance to have a heightened personal encounter with the artwork as was never before possible. Alone with the masterpiece in the virtual space, the visitor can see the vivid details of this celebrated oil painting, including the texture of the wood panel seen through the paint layer, and the marks where the panel once cracked and was masterfully restored.