25 Ways the Mona Lisa Has Been Remade

Rennaisance man Leonardo Da Vinci's La Gioconda, more commonly know as Mona Lisa, has been captivating viewers since the 1500s with her mysterious smile. Now housed in the Louvre, the oil painting is visited by over six million people every year. That is one popular lady, especially considering that at first glance she's not particularly attractive. Yet she has gained a sort of mythic reputation, and her image has so infiltrated pop culture that many have created their own interpretation of art history's most famous lady. There is a pizza Mona Lisa, a balloon Mona Lisa, and a finger Mona Lisa. Even famous artists in their own right have followed in Da Vinci's footsteps like Marcel Duchamp and Kazimir Malevich. Check out our list of 25 Ways the Mona Lisa Has Been Remade to see the infamous woman in her many forms.

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Created by: Unknown

This is what happens if you face swap two iconic figures. P. Diddy and the Mona Lisa are two iconic people that you would never think of associating. They both fit perfectly into each others' spots.

Created by: Dito Von Tease

Morphing famous figures onto his fingers is Dito Von Tease's thing. It's strange but also kind of hilarious.

Created by: Unknown

Duck Face Mona Lisa has been roaming the Internet for a while now. This is a rendition of what the Mona Lisa would look like if she were on social media.

Created by: Larry Moss

Larry Moss is an American balloon artist who makes balloon versions of famous paintings. His aim is to challenge people's notions of reality and make them smile.

Created by: Sanghyuk Moon

This artist wanted to test his hypothesis that famous paintings are still recognizable even if they've been pixelated to extreme forms. He did this with five classic paintings: van Gogh's Starry Night and Self Portrait, da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Munch's The Scream, and Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. And not only are they still recognizable, but Moon's poster versions of this experiment became pretty popular.

Created by: Domenico Crolla

What do pizza and the Mona Lisa have in common? Well, they're both from Italy, and now they're both edible. Crolla is a restaurateur who puts portraits on his pizzas.

Created by: Jatuporn K. Suwan

Suwan arranges coffee beans for his photographs. He uses the whole coffee bean in order to make an outline and then places grinds to add detail. He has created many coffee masterpieces, including his version of the Mona Lisa, an iconic John Lennon image, the boot of Italy, and many more.

Created by: Team Coco

An ultimate mash-up of the modern world and classical antiquity occurred when pop-culture website Team Coco decided to put popular video game characters into paintings. This mash-up was inspired by the announcement of the video game collection launch.

Created by: Jane Perkins

Jane Perkins recreates popular art pieces with objects such as buttons, toys, and other plastic figures. Her collection is called "Plastic Classics."

Created by: Thomas Pavitte

Perhaps the world's only and most complex dot-to-dot artist, Pavitte makes this childhood hobby into an art form. He used 6,239 dots to make this intricate Mona Lisa rendering.

Created by: Fraser Clark

Fraser Clark was thinking about the ubiquity of Mona Lisa photos out there and which ones are the closest to the original. He then came up with the idea of combining them all into one book. It includes 240 different Mona Lisa images. The best part is that the side of the book uses the edges of the pages to create a Mona Lisa recreation out of all the different versions.

Created by: Scott Wade

Who isn't guilty of writing something on a dirty car? Artist Scott Wade uses the dirt on cars to make insanely detailed and beautiful recreations of masterpieces. This one is a combination of Starry Night and the Mona Lisa.

Created by: Marco Pece

Pece is an Italian photographer who loves Legos. His work consists of him recreating famous paintings out of Legos and then photographing them. On his website, he states that his works are all parodies of the art world.

Created by: Jim Hance

Hance is a character artist and painter who obviously loves Star Wars. Many of his pieces combine popular icons and Star Wars characters. In this painting, he turns Mona Lisa into Princess Leia.

Created by: Romero Britto

Britto is Brazilian-American artist, painter, and sculptor who likes to bring together different elements of cubism, pop art, and graffiti in his paintings. His style is funny and almost cartoon-like. He made the cat version of the Mona Lisa. The original and his version are very different, but the influence of the Mona Lisa is undeniable before even looking at the title.

Created by: Marcel Duchamp

This piece is one of Duchamp's "readymades." He took a postcard of the famous painting, drew a mustache and beard on it and then renamed it, declaring it a work of art. The title itself is a joke. When you spell the letters out loud it forms the French sentence "Elle a chaud au cul." Translation: "Her ass is hot."

Created by: Fernand Leger

Leger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker who created abstract works in the early to mid 1900s. Like Duchamp, he used a postcard of the Mona Lisa for his piece. Leger claimed that the piece was inspired by his keys, the postcard, and a can of sardines, demonstrating the strong contrast of ideas between the three components.

Created by: Jimmy Ernst

Ernst is a American painter who worked in the Neo-Dada style. He was influenced by Dalí, Miro, Man Ray, and many other prominent artists. He did a series with the Mona Lisa where he put a woman's legs in stockings below the portrait.

Created by: Fernando Botero

Botero is a Colombian artist that likes to play with the size of the human figure and its forms. He did that with the Mona Lisa, and this piece is the result. It is common notion for people not understand what is so attractive about the Mona Lisa. That's mostly because what our definition of attractive is changes with time. But Botero seems to be amplifying that misunderstanding.

Created by: Robert Silvers

Silvers is the man behind the photo-mosaic idea. He uses hundreds and hundreds of individual images to create one large one. He did this with the Mona Lisa's face. Her distinct smile and the particular curvature of her nose are done especially well.

Created by: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt

This piece is a combination of the Mona Lisa and everyday materials that we used in high school like aluminum foil, plastic wrap, holographic tape, pipe cleaners, glitter, staples, and colored markers. The piece is supposed to show what the Mona Lisa would have looked like if she was in high school. The kitsch style is a wonderfully tacky take on the masterpiece.

Created by: Kazimir Malevich

Malevich was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He is often credited with bringing the avant-garde movement to Russian art. Working in his geometric layered style, Malevich includes an image of the Mona Lisa in his work. Malevich was working in abstraction and trying to move away from figuration. He did this literally by putting the X's through the Mona Lisa, the most famous figurative painting ever made.

Created by: Carter Family Portraits

Two of the greats come together when Beyonce meets Da Vinci. This awesome Tumblr makes Queen Bey look epic by putting her face on the real Mona Lisa. The caption of this photo is "Bey practicing her fierce face in the mirror before bed time."

Created by: Chris Naylor

Using simply a lawnmower and a few garden tools, Naylor recreated Da Vinci's masterpiece on his medium of choice... grass!

Created by: Dean Roher

This is one of the most famous Mona Lisa recreations. The New Yorker put a Mona Lisa version of Monica Lewinsky on their cover. Lewinsky's nickname was Mona, and the press photos of her highlighted her smile. It was a fitting yet highly controversial comparison at the time.