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About This Mona Lisa

Fed up with "the red rant of unearned praise," novelist Stanley Elkin fires away in Art & Antiques (Summer 1991) at some "overrated masterpieces," from Hamlet to Citizen Kane. But when he comes to Leo- nardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the curmud- geonly critic almost succumbs to her fam-ously mysterious smile.
See her there in her cat-who-ate-the-canaries, her smug repose and babushka of hair like a her odd, asexual face, in where the myster...