--- title: News Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa description: Anchor Shepard Smith attributed the Mona Lisa to DiCaprio canonical: https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-25T18:26:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:14.910Z og:title: News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right og:description: So close, and yet so far og:url: https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: 86th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right twitter:description: So close, and yet so far twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right > Sponsored content. 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Smith did not acknowledge the blunder and continued his report on the research in identifying the _Mona Lisa_ model. > [](https://twitter.com/StevensonErin/status/647132816505860097) It’s an understandable verbal miscue – confusing the actor’s similar-sounding name with his 15th-century namesake. (DiCaprio’s mother reportedly named him Leonardo because his first kick in the womb occurred while she admired a da Vinci masterpiece in an Italian museum.) It would’ve hurt more if Smith’s mistake was crediting DiCaprio with an elusive Oscar instead. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/25/leonardo-dicaprio-painted-mona-lisa-fox-news) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/"},"headline":"News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right","datePublished":"2015-09-25T18:26:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:14.910Z","description":"So close, and yet so far","url":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Danielle Zhu / Entertianment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"86th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals","caption":"86th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/","name":"News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right"}}]}] ```