Mona Lisa paintingPhoto:Press Service Archives We have not received any official request to rent the painting. In fact, we do not lend the painting "Mona Lisa" at all, since it is extremely fragile and any transportation can cause irreparable damage to it, "said Vincent Pomarede, director of the Louvre art galleries. By the way, the "Mona Lisa" has only left the walls three times. In 1911, the painting was stolen by an Italian who was arrested two years later while trying to sell the masterpiece to a collector from Florence. In 1963, it was exhibited in a museum in the United States, and in 1974 in Japan. Since then, the "Mona Lisa" is in the Louvre, where it is kept in a specially equipped display case that maintains a constant temperature and humidity. Meanwhile, participants in the excavation of the burial of Lisa Gherardini, who probably posed for Leonardo's famous "Mona Lisa", discovered a female skeleton.