Monday, 12 January 2009

This Is So We

Source: Psychology Today

Duncan Watts was annoyed to see a rapturous mob swarming around Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre while many other magnificent works at the museum sat unviewed.

A sociologist at Columbia University, Watts traced the Mona Lisa's popularity to a series of events that brought attention to it, among which were its theft by an Italian patriot in 1911 and a refashioning by Andy Warhol in 1963.


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