History Main / MonaLisaSmile

** In ''Spaceship Earth'', one scene is the lady posing for the painting and rapidly losing her patience because Leonardo keeps on getting distracted by other projects.

* In Spaceship Earth at Epcot, one scene is the lady posing for the painting and rapidly losing her patience because Leonardo keeps on getting distracted by other projects.

* Crowley in ''Literature/GoodOmens'' posesses an early sketch of the Mona Lisa, which he thinks is superior. Apparently, Leonardo agreed:

->''"...in this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as a live as the original."''

-> "...in this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as a live as the original"
-->--Giorgio Vasari, ''Lives of The Artists'' (trans. George Bull)

* ''ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes'': One of the ancestors of Jeanne Darm in the story "Jeanne Darm" is painted by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci in the Mona Lisa pose.

[[folder:Anime]]

[[folder:Film]]
* At the beginning of ''Film/HudsonHawk'' Leonardo da Vinci is shown with the ''Mona Lisa'', which is finished except for the mouth. Then we see why: when the model opens her mouth, she has very bad teeth. The joke is that Leonardo decided to give her the enigmatic smile so he wouldn't have to show the teeth.
* In ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', Mona Lisa is one of the paintings which is captured and burned in the opening. Adding to the tragedy is that the main character, initially a ruthless enforcer of the totalitarian regime, has no idea about the significance of it.
* Parodied outright in ''Asterix & Obelix & Cleopatra.'' To their credit, Monica Bellucci makes a hot Mona Lisa.
* In the Spanish short film ''La Gioconda Esta Triste'' (''The Mona Lisa is Sad'') the Mona Lisa stops smiling, ''and so does every single painted, drawn, photographed or videotaped reproduction of the painting''. Not only that, but at the same time everyone on Earth also forgets how to smile. Against a background of international tension, environmental destruction and terrorist threats scientists try to solve the mystery. They finally conclude that the Mona Lisa's sadness represents that of the entire world, and only way to save the world is for everybody to try to smile again. [[spoiler:But it's too late - everybody starts weeping, and the world ends.]]
* ''Film/EverAfter'' - Leonardo shows off his latest work (the famous painting, inaccurately depicted as on a medium that can be rolled and stored in a tube) when introducing himself.
%% * The film ''Film/MonaLisaSmile''. Obviously.

[[folder:Literature]]
* Parodied in ''Literature/TheFarSide'', with a painting of some guy with a gigantic nose and one of the viewers comments "Gad that's eerie, wherever you go the nose follows you!"
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Mona Ogg, painted by Leonard of Quirm, and implied to be of the witch Nanny Ogg in her younger days. The ''teeth'' follow you around the room.
** This is the cover of ''[[http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/images/artofdisc.jpg The Art of Discworld]]''. The model has an enormous grim.
* Crowley in ''Literature/GoodOmens'' posesses an early sketch of the Mona Lisa, which he thinks is superior. Apparently, Leonardo agreed:
-->''"I got her bloody smile right in the roughs," he told Crowley, sipping cold wine in the lunchtime sun, "but it went all over the place when I painted it. Her husband had a few things to say about it when I delivered it, but, like I tell him, Signor del Giocondo, apart from you, who's going to see it? Anyway ... explain this helicopter thing again, would you?"''
* There's a passage in ''Literature/TheGodfather'' where Lucy Mancini, after Sonny Corleone's death, tells her new lover about her affair with Sonny. When she says, "I did ''everything'' with Sonny," she's got what the new guy thinks of as a Mona Lisa Smile, and he can't help wondering if ''this'' explains what La Gioconda was smiling about.

[[folder:Live Action Television]]
* Used a few times in Terry Gilliam's animations for ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The City of Death" the villain gets Leonardo to paint several copies of the Mona Lisa so he (the villain) could sell them multiple times to facilitate his evil plot. The Doctor foils this plan by writing "This Is A Fake" in felt tip on the boards Leonardo uses. Naturally, this means the one hanging in the Louvre also has "This Is A Fake" written under the painting, but the Doctor says that if people have to x-ray it to know if it's any good, they ''deserve'' to think it's a fake.
* Mona is taken out of her portrait so Alex can cheat on a test in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. She ends up going back in wearing one of Harper's home made necklaces.
* She comes out of her portrait in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. She [[AndIMustScream traps people in paintings]] and searches for her "brother", another painting made using the same oils.
* Lisa is a main character in ''Series/{{Leonardo}}''. The first time Leo paints her, his patron's reaction is "[[ItWillNeverCatchOn What's wrong with her mouth?]]"
* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'': Artemus Gordon's smile when he has an [[EurekaMoment "Ah-ha!" moment]] is described as this.

[[folder:Music]]
* The Music/NatKingCole song "Mona Lisa."
* [[http://www.posterchild.com/docs/reprints29.html This]] concert poster for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Referred to as the Mona Zappa.
* ''Music/TheMiracle'' by Music/{{Queen}} mentions Mona Lisa's smile as a miracle.

[[folder:Other]]
* In Spaceship Earth at Epcot, one scene is the lady posing for the painting and rapidly losing her patience because Leonardo keeps on getting distracted by other projects.
* In the card game ''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'', there are a set of three Artifact cards: Mona Lisa (Obvious Forgery), Mona Lisa (Excellent Forgery) and Mona Lisa (Real Thing). When more than one is in play, the Excellent Forgery trumps the Obvious Forgery, while the Real Thing beats both.
* [[http://www.rickmeyerowitz.com/Classic%20Htmls/Mona-Gorrilla.html The Mona Gorilla]] from National Lampoon Magazine.
* The Mona Lisa is moderately common in photoshop contests featuring famous artworks. [[http://www.b3tards.com/u/e72b6a43f7162171a09b/mona_leia.jpg The Mona Leia]] is one of the better results of such.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' lets you buy the Mona Lisa, here called the "famous painting", from Crazzy Redd or (on rare occasions) Tom Nook.
* There's also a mission in ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'' where the agents help "Leonard" paint his masterpiece. Try and guess what it is.
* The iconic portrait of the Holy Mother Sophia in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''.
* One episode of the [[WidgetSeries weird]] ''VideoGame/ChoAniki'' shooter series has a floating Mona Lisa that shoots EyeBeams. [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/choaniki/chops2-16.jpg No, really]].
* One scene in ''VideoGame/{{Panic}}'' takes place in a museum displaying the Mona Lisa. Among the ways you can mess with her are [[TemporaryBulkChange making her comically obese]], turning her into Medusa (leading to Slap getting petrified) or a werewolf, or causing a mountain climber to emerge from her cleavage and climb his way up her face to the top of her head.

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''WebComic/RustyAndCo'' has a [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/20/ painting]] whose eyes followed you (for a good reason). It managed to confuse umber hulks. See also the next page.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-05-18 had]] one alien guard who did FreakOut seeing "undigested eyeballs in a [[BlobMonster pile of poo]]" look like they follow him.

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', Lampwick lights a match against a painting of the Mona Lisa.
* Seen in the art collection of Atlantis in one ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' movie, with a squid.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' has a Mona Lisa smile, a description popular in FanFic. The [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bPg2pkGzL._SS500_.jpg cover]] of ''The Daria Diaries'' is a homage to this.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', a pair of x-ray glasses is used on the Mona Lisa, revealing a bra underneath.
** In the Pepe Le Pew cartoon "Louvre Come Back To Me", Pepe pursues his hapless female victim through the Louvre, finally chasing her through the museum air-vents. His distinctive aroma drifts through the museum, driving assorted masterpieces to {{Wild Take}}s. The last shot is the Mona Lisa, who quips to the audience "I can tell you chaps one thing, it's not always easy to hold a smile."
* In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', the family visits the Louvre, and Muriel ends up being trapped in the Mona Lisa when a series of events causes all of the works of art to come alive.
* In her first appearance (of two) on ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', Splatter Phoenix steals the Mona Lisa's smile with intent to ransom it back.
* All the works of art stolen by The Collector in the ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack'' episode "But is it Art?" were parodies of famous paintings, including "The Groaning Pizza," a pizza-faced person in Mona Lisa's pose, but with a distinct frown.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', they used the joke that she had very bad teeth which is why Leonardo decided to give her the smile so her teeth wouldn't show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** One episode has the title "Moanin' Lisa".
** "Treehouse Of Horror I": In the third segment ("The Raven") the painting of Lenore features Marge in a Mona Lisa pose.
** "Treehouse Of Horror IV": One of the paintings in the background during Bart's introduction features Marge in a Mona Lisa pose.
*** In the third segment of "Treehouse Of Horror IV" Chief Wiggum and his police corps destroy all museums "to prevent mummies from rising". Lou throws a copy of the Mona Lisa on the fire, to which Wiggum simply says: "Nice work, Lou."
* In the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego?'', the titular thief starts stealing various facial features from famous works of art. When she's got everything but the mouth, Zack asks: "who has the most famous smile in all the world?" The answer is of course, this trope (and not "Tom Cruise" as Ivy dreamily suggests).
* During the academic decathlon in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'', Pinkie Pie produces an exact replica of the Mona Lisa ''[[SupremeChef baked inside a giant cake]]''.

[[folder:Real Life]]
* Creator/SalvadorDali painted one with himself as the "lady".
* There are crazy speculations out there that the Mona Lisa is Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait (while crossdressed).
* Street artist Banksy has a work with Mona Lisa holding a rocket-propelled grenade on her shoulder.
* Marcel Duchamp's "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marcel_Duchamp_Mona_Lisa_LHOOQ.jpg L.H.O.O.Q]]" is the Mona Lisa with a goatee and a mustache drawn on, and the letters L.H.O.O.Q., a [[FunWithAcronyms faux acronym]] which sounds like "Elle a chaud au cul"[[note]]"She has a hot ass."[[/note]].
* Belgian cartoonist Gal parodied this painting with several celebrities, including UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter.

* During the academic decathlon in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'', Pinkie Pie manages to produce an exact replica of the Mona Lisa ''[[SupremeChef baked inside a giant cake]]''.

* In Disney/{{Pinocchio}}: Lampwick lights a match against a painting of the Mona Lisa.

* The film ''Film/MonaLisaSmile''. Obviously.

* Belgian cartoonist Gal parodied this painting with several celebrities, including JimmyCarter.

* Yoshinoya-sensei from ''HidamariSketch'' has the painting.

* In ''BoosterGold'', the Mona Lisa is Booster's sister. Booster [[TimeTravel comes back]] to get his sister and tells Leonardo he's taking her back to Rome. Leonardo, who had the face all done, struggled to grasp the rest of her after she left. He decided, due to personal preference, to give her dark hair and change her clothing because she had been wearing her costume while he was drawing... and that would have looked stupid.
* In October 2011, Marvel did a series of vampire variant covers to tie in with ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}: Curse of the Mutants''. The cover for ''S.H.I.E.L.D.'' #4 (in which Leonardo is a main character) was a [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111204074202/marveldatabase/images/thumb/0/0b/S.H.I.E.L.D._Vol_1_4_Vampire_Variant.jpg/386px-S.H.I.E.L.D._Vol_1_4_Vampire_Variant.jpg vampire Mona Lisa]].
* ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes: One of the ancestors of Jeanne Darm in the story "Jeanne Darm" is painted by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci in the Mona Lisa pose.
* ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}: One gag has Semaphore painting a copy of the Mona Lisa. Cubitus suggests some alterations and paints his own face over it.
* One DonaldDuck comic had the poor duck nigh-lovestruck by the Duck Universe Mona Lisa equivalent. It soon turned out that [[GeneticMemory Donald's ancestor]], or previous incarnation perhaps, was Leonardo's helper. Mona Lisa herself was a duck of really nasty disposition, which made painting her favorably problematic. After many futile attempts, what finally got the smile on her face was the sight of Renaissance Donald and Leonardo getting into a fight after the former wrecked the latter's laboratory.

* Mona Lisa is one of the paintings captured and burned in ''{{Equilibrium}}''

* Film/EverAfter - Leonardo shows off his latest work (the famous painting, inaccurately depicted as on a medium that can be rolled and stored in a tube) when introducing himself.

* Parodied in ''TheFarSide'', with a painting of some guy with a gigantic nose and one of the viewers comments "Gad that's eerie, wherever you go the nose follows you!"

* There's a passage in ''Film/TheGodfather'' where Lucy Mancini, after Sonny Corleone's death, tells her new lover about her affair with Sonny. When she says, "I did ''everything'' with Sonny," she's got what the new guy thinks of as a Mona Lisa Smile, and he can't help wondering if ''this'' explains what La Gioconda was smiling about.

* Mona is taken out of her portrait so Alex can cheat on a test in ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. She ends up going back in wearing one of Harper's home made necklaces.

* Lisa is a main character in ''{{Leonardo}}''. The first time Leo paints her, his patron's reaction is "[[ItWillNeverCatchOn What's wrong with her mouth?]]"
* Series/TheWildWildWest: Artemus Gordon's smile when he has an [[EurekaMoment "Ah-ha!" moment]] is described as this.

* In the card game ''{{Chrononauts}}'', there are a set of three Artifact cards: Mona Lisa (Obvious Forgery), Mona Lisa (Excellent Forgery) and Mona Lisa (Real Thing). When more than one is in play, the Excellent Forgery trumps the Obvious Forgery, while the Real Thing beats both.

* There's also a mission in ''EliteBeatAgents'' where the agents help "Leonard" paint his masterpiece. Try and guess what it is.

* Seen in the art collection of Atlantis in one ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' movie, with a squid.
* {{Daria}} has a Mona Lisa smile, a description popular in FanFic. The [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bPg2pkGzL._SS500_.jpg cover]] of ''The Daria Diaries'' is a homage to this.

* TheSimpsons:

* In the animated version of ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?'', the titular thief starts stealing various facial features from famous works of art. When she's got everything but the mouth, Zack asks: "who has the most famous smile in all the world?" The answer is of course, this trope (and not "Tom Cruise" as Ivy dreamily suggests).

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[[caption-width-right:225:[- She's smiling because [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife she knows she's spending her time more productively than you are.]]-] ]]
-> "...in this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as alive as the original"

* ComicStrip/{{Cubitus}}: One gag has Semaphore painting a copy of the Mona Lisa. Cubitus suggests some alterations and paints his own face over it.

* In ''BoosterGold'', the Mona Lisa is Booster's sister (at least partly, Michelle is blonde, so presumably he found another model to finish it after Booster dragged her away). Booster comes back to get his sister and tells Leonardo he's taking her back to Rome. Leonardo, who had the face all done, struggled to grasp the rest of her after she left. He decided, due to personal preference, to give her dark hair and change her clothing because she had been wearing her costume while he was drawing... and that would have looked stupid.

* The Nat King Cole song "Mona Lisa."

* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'':
** A pair of x-ray glasses is used on the Mona Lisa, revealing a bra underneath.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', they used the joke that she had very bad teeth which is why Leonardo decided to give her the smile so her teeth woundln't show.

* There's also a mission in ''EliteBeatAgents'' where the agents help "Leo" paint his masterpiece. Try and guess what it is.

** In a Pepe Le Pew cartoon, "Louvre Come Back To Me", Pepe pursues his hapless female victim through the Louvre, finally chasing her through the museum air-vents. His distinctive aroma drifts through the museum, humorously damaging assorted masterpieces. The last shot is the Mona Lisa, speaking to the audience; "I can tell you chaps one thing, it's not always easy keeping this smile."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', It was this smile that convinced Leonardo to return from Dadaism to his classic style. He did ask the model to do a wider smile, but wasn't too pleased with her teeth.

* There are crazy speculations out there that the Mona Lisa is Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait.

* In ''BoosterGold'', the Mona Lisa is actually Booster's sister (at least partly, Michelle is blonde, so presumably he found another model to finish it after Booster dragged her away).
** Actually, Booster comes back to get his sister and tells Leonardo he's taking her back to Rome. Leonardo, who had the face all done, struggled to grasp the rest of her after she left. He decided, due to personal preference, to give her dark hair and change her clothing because she had been wearing her costume while he was drawing...and that would have looked stupid.

* At the beginning of ''HudsonHawk'' Leonardo da Vinci is shown with the ''Mona Lisa'', which is finished except for the mouth. Then we see why: when the model opens her mouth, she has very bad teeth. The joke is that Leonardo decided to give her the enigmatic smile so he wouldn't have to show the teeth.
** This joke is also used on ''TimeSquad''.

* Parodied in TheFarSide, with a painting of some guy with a gigantic nose and one of the viewers comments "Gad that's eerie, wherever you go the nose follows you!"
* Literature/{{Discworld}}'s Mona Ogg, painted by Leonard of Quirm, and implied to be of the witch Nanny Ogg in her younger days. The ''teeth'' follow you around the room.
** This is the cover of ''[[http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/images/artofdisc.jpg The Art of Discworld]]''.

-->"I got her bloody smile right in the roughs," he told Crowley, sipping cold wine in the lunchtime sun, "but it went all over the place when I painted it. Her husband had a few things to say about it when I delivered it, but, like I tell him, Signor del Giocondo, apart from you, who's going to see it? Anyway ... explain this helicopter thing again, would you?"

* A short story (whose name escapes me) has a team of archaeologists discovering another Mona Lisa in an Italian cave. Comparison with the original shows that the new one has the subject's arms in a slightly different position, so they explore the cave further and find a whole stack of paintings, each one again with the arms having moved from the previous one, lifting towards the neck of her gown until in the final painting she has opened the gown to expose her breasts. They also find a machine, presumably designed and built by Leonardo, which presents each picture in turn to the observer at one-second intervals when a crank handle is turned. In other words, the Mona Lisa we have is just one frame from the world's first porn movie!

* She also comes out of her portrait in ''TheSarahJaneAdventures''. She [[AndIMustScream traps people in paintings]] and searches for her "brother", another painting made using the same oils.

* Seen in the art collection of Atlantis in one SpongeBobSquarePants movie, with a squid.
* {{Daria}} has a Mona Lisa smile, a description popular in FanFic.
** The [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bPg2pkGzL._SS500_.jpg cover]] of ''The Daria Diaries'' is a homage to this.
* In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', a pair of x-ray glasses is used on the Mona Lisa, revealing a bra underneath.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' - the family visits the Louvre, and Muriel ends up being trapped in the Mona Lisa when a series of events causes all of the works of art to come alive.

* All the works of art stolen by The Collector in the ''SushiPack'' episode "But is it Art?" were parodies of famous paintings, including "The Groaning Pizza," a pizza-faced person in Mona Lisa's pose, but with a distinct frown.

** There are speculations that the Mona Lisa is Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait.

* LightNovel/{{Toradora}} - Taiga, after torturing Ami by forcing her to do multiple impersonations, uses threats of impersonations to come in order to control her. The best of the bunch? "Mona Lisa taking a corner at 250 miles per hour." Just picture it for a minute and TRY not to laugh.
* Yoshinoya-sensei from HidamariSketch has the painting.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: Wild World'' lets you buy the Mona Lisa from Tom Nook. He calls it the "famous painting".

* The ''{{Batman}}'' {{Elseworld}} "Dark Masterpiece" parallels a modern art-theft (by the gallery owner) being prevented by Batman with the kidnapping of Lisa del Giocondo herself (by her husband) being prevented by Leonardo's apprentice in a Renaissance-style bat-costume. It ends with Leonardo asking Lisa what her secretive smile is about, and being told that she's pregnant, and he's the father.