Copying the Mona Lisa

Copying the Mona Lisa
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A Chinese woman walks past a huge portrait of the Mona Lisa made up of 999 oil-painting segments of various sizes at the Shenzhen Pavilion of the Urban Best Practices Area at the Expo Park in Shanghai on Sept. 5, 2010. More than 500 painters collaborated on the piece.

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