Many of us have read Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" and look forward to the soon-to-be-released movie of the same title.

Leonardo DaVinci's "Mona Lisa" is a prominent feature of both the book and movie.

We have become so used to seeing the likeness on picture postcards, and even advertisements, that we find it difficult to see it with fresh eyes as the painting by a real man portraying a real woman of flesh and blood.

Much is said about being in the right place at the right time. What if the setting for the portrait was the present day in the United States, instead of 500+ years ago in Italy?