It's Their Mona Lisa
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3 days ago
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petercooper
2 hours ago
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Upon seeing the entry for Marie-Antoinette’s private theater, I felt an urge to proclaim the Amargosa Opera House as Death Valley's "Mona Lisa". I was lucky enough to get a private tour and it was like stepping into one of the world's greatest works of art in the most bizarre of locations. The pictures don't do it justice but https://lenspire.zeiss.com/photo/en/article/mario-basner-cap...
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rawling
2 hours ago
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I think the (OP) article has screwed up here. The article, and I think its original source, name a particular set from the theater as the palace's Mona Lisa. But the article has a picture of the theater itself, and even misnames the theater after the set.

Tatler source: "This includes machinery that causes a tree to rise from a trapdoor and three sets – a simple interior, a forest and a temple of Minerva – the latter being the oldest intact decor in the world, dating back to 1754 – ‘our own Mona Lisa,’ said Masson."

OP article: "What is it? The Temple of Minerva theater set (c.1754) from Marie-Antoinette’s private theater."

OP caption on picture of theater: "Temple of Minerva theater (c. 1754)"

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ggm
3 hours ago
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I thought I saw "woman with a polecat" in the SF legion of honour gallery. Maybe it was on tour. (This is at least a decade ago and possibly more)
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ashwinnair99
4 hours ago
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Every culture has that one thing outsiders reduce to a joke or a meme. Rarely bothers to ask why it matters to the people it actually belongs to.
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ayaros
4 hours ago
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What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?
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thelibrarian
4 hours ago
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Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.
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argee
3 hours ago
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Based on TFA, nothing. Since no has quoted anything as such. So, allow me.

This [0] is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News. (Most favorited post circa 2020, though now that would likely be something else.)

[0] https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/

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zem
3 minutes ago
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that's a lovely post, and I missed it when it came out, so thanks for that! but based on the logic in TFA I think an admin would have to make the claim for it to count.
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fooker
3 hours ago
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Has to be the dropbox comment
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ErroneousBosh
44 minutes ago
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What was the dropbox comment?
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nom
9 minutes ago
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bitwize
3 hours ago
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The guy who dismissed Dropbox.
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wiether
2 hours ago
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Yes!
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