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The Mona Lisa once had a hat in early sketches. Which would’ve turned the whole thing into a fashion era.

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No early sketches of the Mona Lisa are known to show a hat. The claim is a joke. Leonardo da Vinci painted the portrait in the early 16th century, and it shows the sitter without one.

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