“No other museum in the world possesses a single exhibit which so overwhelms in popularity all the others:

 

not Botticelli’s Birth of Venus at the Uffizi, Rembrandt’s Night Watch at the Rijkmuseum in amsterdam, or Velasquez’s Las Meninas at the Prado. Not even Michelangelo’s Creation, a complex and grandoise work which, one might imagine, would outdo in the popular imagination the portrait of a soberly-dressed and unknown Florentine Lady.”

 

Donald Sasson