A room of her own: Louvre to give ‘disappointing’ Mona Lisa new digs

She’s the world’s most famous and most visited work of art, with up to ten million admirers per year.

Her enigmatic smile has been idolised by art lovers, and even targeted by thieves, soup-loving protesters, and even a man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair who threw cake in her face.

But now, a new project may prove the last queen of France Marie Antoinette right, as she found her “too small, too dark.”

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting "Mona Lisa" is about to be moved, in order to give La Gioconda more space. And appease visitors.

Indeed, with Louvre visitors getting an average of 50 seconds to admire the "Mona Lisa", which is displayed behind a barrier and bullet-proof glass in the centre of the Salle des Etats (glass installed in the 1950s to protect it after an acid attack), many have dubbed it the world's most disappointing masterpiece.

Understandable really, as the huge crowds and limited space in the gallery means it’s difficult to see Mona Lisa.

Faced with this problem, the Parisian museum’s director is now proposing to place da Vinci’s chef d’oeuvre in isolation to improve the experience.

“Moving Mona Lisa to a separate room could end the public’s disappointment,” said Laurence des Cars, the museum’s director. “Visitors are not being properly received in the current room so we feel that we’re not doing our job properly.”

A new dedicated space for "Mona Lisa", which currently hangs opposite Paolo Veronese’s overlooked "Wedding at Cana", makes sense - for both da Vinci’s painting and its attention-starved neighbours.

Vincent Delieuvin, chief curator of 16th-century Italian painting, told French newspaper Le Figaro: “We’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but this time everyone is in agreement.”

“It’s a large