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    <title>NPR: Mona Lisa</title>
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      <title>What is RFK Jr.&apos;s favorite bird? Why is this woman smiling? Find out in the quiz!</title>
      <description>This week was hard on the conflict-averse. But if you&apos;re up on nursery rhymes, prehistoric bodily fluids and Renaissance art, you&apos;ll get at least three right this week.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/2025/01/31/g-s1-45448/kansas-city-chiefs-shark-rfk-jr-doomsday-clock-ai-executive-order</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/11308x6364+0+0/resize/11308x6364!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff3%2Fce%2Fe3eb009e4d43bace97cbbe570f2c%2Ftravis-mona-rfk.jpg' alt='From left: Travis Kelce, football person; Mona Lisa, smirker; RFK Jr., falconer.'/><p>This week was hard on the conflict-averse. But if you're up on nursery rhymes, prehistoric bodily fluids and Renaissance art, you'll get at least three right this week.</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=g-s1-45448' />]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:creator>Holly J. Morris</dc:creator>
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      <title>Mona Lisa&apos;s roommates may be glad she&apos;s moving out</title>
      <description>Now that Leonardo da Vinci&apos;s masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:43:10 -0500</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5000x3333+0+0/resize/5000x3333!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd5%2Ff5%2Fda51497d4f79b74221de574122ce%2Fgettyimages-2156734303.jpg' alt='Louvre visitors in front of <em>The Wedding Feast at Cana</em> by Paolo Veronese in June 2024. The painting is among several masterworks that may soon cease to play "second fiddle'" to the Mona Lisa.'/><p>Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.</p><p>(Image credit: Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5277578' />]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:creator>Chloe Veltman</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Louvre will be renovated and the &apos;Mona Lisa&apos; will have her own room</title>
      <description>French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a &quot;reimagined, restored and expanded&quot; Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:08:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5276917/louvre-renovation-mona-lisa-paris</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8256x5504+0+0/resize/8256x5504!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9e%2F08%2F2dae6ffe48b384066461365c4491%2Fgettyimages-2195853559.jpg' alt='French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech in front of the <em>Mona Lisa</em> by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre in Paris on Tuesday.'/><p>French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.</p><p>(Image credit: Bertrand Guay/Pool)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5276917' />]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:creator>Eleanor Beardsley</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Louvre Museum looks to rehouse the &apos;Mona Lisa&apos; in its own room — underground</title>
      <description>Louvre Director Laurence des Cars said her institution is looking at upgrading both the visitor experience surrounding the iconic painting as well as the museum overall.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 06:00:44 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Chloe Veltman</dc:creator>
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      <title>Climate activists throw soup at glass protecting Mona Lisa in Paris</title>
      <description>Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 07:30:16 -0500</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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      <title>A man in a wig was detained after throwing a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa</title>
      <description>A man who was apparently disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair was detained after throwing a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 13:02:24 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.npr.org/2022/05/30/1102044111/man-throws-cake-at-mona-lisa-the-louvre</link>
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      <dc:creator>Rina Torchinsky</dc:creator>
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      <title>Mystery Sculpture Thought To Be The Work Of Leonardo da Vinci Is Unveiled In Italy</title>
      <description>Since da Vinci&apos;s death, no three-dimensional work of art by him has ever been identified. That is, until now, say curators in Italy.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 15:15:36 -0500</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Shannon Van Sant</dc:creator>
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      <title>Is This An Early &apos;Mona Lisa&apos;?</title>
      <description>A Swiss foundation claims to have evidence of an earlier version. Skeptics say they need more proof.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark Memmott</dc:creator>
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