Online, Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting is the subject of thousands of negative reviews – on display at the Louvre, it is deluged with visitors. Is the problem the artwork or the stressful experience of seeing it?

The Mona Lisa painting may be moved to an underground chamber in a bid by the Louvre museum to improve the “world’s most disappointing” viewing experience for its star attraction.

But now, a new project may prove the last queen of France Marie Antoinette right, as she found her “too small, too dark.” Leonardo da Vinci’s painting "Mona Lisa" is about to be moved, in order to give La Gioconda more space.

Moving the Leonardo da Vinci painting, which attracts ten million tourists a year, is intended to give it more space and ease visitors’ complaints that it is a let-down

Mona Lisa should be moved to an 'underground chamber', Louvre says - Gallery hopes proposed move would make world-famous painting easier to see