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Thousands and thousands of people line up every day to wait in long, slow moving lines just to get to the barrier around the Mona Lisa to photograph it.
The Mona Lisa might be the most reproduced image in all of history. And the people who get the opportunity to see it in person can only think to photograph it one more time.
It's almost if that were the point. Taking a selfie with Lisa is the correct way to experience this art. If your camera broke, there is no reason to wait on line just to what, see the painting?
When I went to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa, I was in a big crowd huddled around it behind stanchions with two guards on either side. It's a cool painting, and it's cool to say I saw it in person I guess, but the museum itself is fucking HUGE. I don't think I even saw all of it that one day, and we were there for a few hours.
I took a picture of it through another guy's phone in front of me. He was about to take a picture, as he held up his phone for a good angle, and I snapped it as it was on his screen.
I heard somewhere that it would take a person 6-8 months to watch every exhibit in The Louvre.