Also, the Mona Lisa, the copy in the Louvre, if you will, has been extensively studied and reproductions abound. It is one of the cultural heritage assets of humanity the destruction of which would actually substract the least from the total sum of future human knowledge.
An argument could be made that a lesser work of Da Vinci’s would be more harmful to destroy.
(Not to mention that it’s overrated as a painting, even among renaissance portraits or Da Vinci’s portraits. I mean:
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