I am in search to know about egyptian mysteries and Monolisa art. Plz help me?

Question

Tell me about Monolisa Portrait in detail.

Answer 1

I doubt you could make much of a connection between the two.

The Egyptian Mysteries centered around the myth of Isis, Horus, Orisis, and Set. Because of its antiquity, the story has conflicting elements but for the most part, scholars agree on a basic outline: Isis and Osiris were married, and Osiris was the king of Egypt. Out of jealousy, his brother, Set, tricked Osiris into laying in a great box, which Set sealed and set afloat on the Nile. Isis searched for her husband, and found him dead and hideously decayed within the casket. Using powerful magic, she resurrects him; nevertheless, Set manages to mangle the body once more, dividing Osiris into fourteen parts which he distributes all over Egypt.

Faithfully, Isis gathers her husband's parts and reassembles them. Their son, Horus, desires to avenge this outrage, and after years of training engages Set in a one-on-one battle. Horus triumphs; he therefore becomes lord of the living, and Osiris reigns as lord of the dead.

The Mystery rites of Egypt centered around the themes found in this story: resurrection, magic, the afterlife, and divine contact. High-ranking individuals were initiated into these mysteries through the re-enactment of parts of the core story. The exact content of the mysteries is somewhat disputed, however.

The Mona Lisa, in contrast, is a portrait painted by Leonardo Da Vinci during the Renaissance. It is one of the most celebrated and well-known portraits in art history, and many theories have evolved to explain its attractiveness. Scholarship regarding the Mona Lisa is robust and on-going.

One possible link between the two is in the lack of eyebrows. The Mona Lisa has no facial hair -- interestingly, shaving off one's facial hair and eyebrows was a peculiar habit of Egyptian priests, according to Herodotus. An Egyptian priest would have shaved his head as well, though the Mona Lisa maintains her coiffure.

Another link is in the aesthetic layout of the portrait itself. The allusion of a pyramid -- with the folded hands as the front corner -- locates the Mona Lisa as the central figure. As you probably know, pyramid structures were very important for Egyptians, and may have had a role in the Mysteries themselves (some New Age people advance the theory that the Great Pyramid at Giza was an initatory hall for the Mysteries), or as expressions of some type of Mystery theology.

Finally, the river in the background of the portrait may be an allusion to the Nile.

Beware, though, that these connections are extremely tenuous and unsupported by scholarly research. Best of luck to you, though, in your investigation.

Answer 2

Here's what the Louvre has to say about her.

This portrait was doubtless painted in Florence between 1503 and 1506. It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person who commissioned it. It was eventually returned to Italy by Leonardo's student and heir Salai. It is not known how the painting came to be in François I's collection.



Description


Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco Giocondo

The history of the Mona Lisa is shrouded in mystery. Among the aspects which remain unclear are the exact identity of the sitter, who commissioned the portrait, how long Leonardo worked on the painting, how long he kept it, and how it came to be in the French royal collection.
The portrait may have been painted to mark one of two events - either when Francesco del Giocondo and his wife bought their own house in 1503, or when their second son, Andrea, was born in December 1502 after the death of a daughter in 1499. The delicate dark veil that covers Mona Lisa's hair is sometimes considered a mourning veil. In fact, such veils were commonly worn as a mark of virtue. Her clothing is unremarkable. Neither the yellow sleeves of her gown, nor her pleated gown, nor the scarf delicately draped round her shoulders are signs of aristocratic status.


A new artistic formula


The Mona Lisa is the earliest Italian portrait to focus so closely on the sitter in a half-length portrait. The painting is generous enough in its dimensions to include the arms and hands without them touching the frame. The portrait is painted to a realistic scale in the highly structured space where it has the fullness of volume of a sculpture in the round. The figure is shown in half-length, from the head to the waist, sitting in a chair whose arm is resting on balusters. She is resting her left arm on the arm of the chair, which is placed in front of a loggia, suggested by the parapet behind her and the two fragmentary columns framing the figure and forming a "window" looking out over the landscape. The perfection of this new artistic formula explains its immediate influence on Florentine and Lombard art of the early 16th century. Such aspects of the work as the three-quarter view of a figure against a landscape, the architectural setting, and the hands joined in the foreground were already extant in Flemish portraiture of the second half of the 15th century, particularly in the works of Hans Memling. However, the spacial coherence, the atmospheric illusionism, the monumentality, and the sheer equilibrium of the work were all new. In fact, these aspects were also new to Leonardo's work, as none of his earlier portraits display such controlled majesty.


An emblematic smile

The Mona Lisa's famous smile represents the sitter in the same way that the juniper branches represent Ginevra Benci and the ermine represents Cecilia Gallerani in their portraits, in Washington and Krakow respectively. It is a visual representation of the idea of happiness suggested by the word "gioconda" in Italian. Leonardo made this notion of happiness the central motif of the portrait: it is this notion which makes the work such an ideal. The nature of the landscape also plays a role. The middle distance, on the same level as the sitter's chest, is in warm colors. Men live in this space: there is a winding road and a bridge. This space represents the transition between the space of the sitter and the far distance, where the landscape becomes a wild and uninhabited space of rocks and water which stretches to the horizon, which Leonardo has cleverly drawn at the level of the sitter's eyes.

Answer 3

Some have put forht the theory that the Mona Lisa is actually a self portrait of Da Vinci. the mouth is the same if you turn one upside down an compare them.

Answer 4

ok Monalisa --> Davinci Code:P u get alot of nice facts from it but don't take it all for granted.

As for Egyptian misteries u can't hope to know them all, pick one and ask about that one instead:)

about the Tel Amarnian dynasty for example ( aka the alien period haha)

Answer 5

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Answer 6

check dis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monalisa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_Egyptology

i hope u'll enjoy dis