Thus it is sort of the root, almost, of occidental portrait painting.'
If you look at all the other portraits – not only of the Italian Renaissance, but also of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries – if you look at Picasso, at everyone you want to name, all of them were inspired by this painting.
According to Louvre Curator Jean-Pierre Cuzin, 'The entire history of portraiture afterwards depends on the Mona Lisa.
