Who painted the Mona Lisa?

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Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 2

Leonardo Da Vinci spent 4 years working on "The Mona Lisa" and never parted with it until his death. The actual name "Mona Lisa" wasn't given by Leonardo Da Vinci but by his biographer 35 years later. Before that time it went by the name of "a certain Florentine Lady" and "a courtesan in a gauze veil" which i think eludes to it being Da Vinci himself. "a certain" sounds funny to me and a courtesan was a like a high class escort. "gauze veil" seems to mean it was covering up something, which also supports it being a female version of Da Vinci.

"La Joconde." Was on a list of Da Vinci's paintings and is most likely the true name of "The Mona Lisa" if there even is one. I think Leonardo intentionally left it name less for the exact reason it's so popular even today.

Not only that but Leonardo's only self portrait matches up PERFECTLY with "The Mona Lisa" that is well known but what's not well known *because i just discovered it* But when you put the two images on top of each other and change some settings the image changes from boy to girl and AGES. Seeing as this is the most famous painting in the world and it was painted by the worlds greatest mind and painter.. he wouldn’t have done that on "accident" which becomes VERY obvious after you consider everything. Goto itsjustlife.com or http://www.itsjustlife.com/mona2.swf to see an animation of the faces combining and ageing. The images haven't been altered in form only by color and other settings that wouldn't affect the structure of the image. Not only do they align and create a new image that's able to change and age, there are also animations inside each and SO SO much more that i'm only just discovering. This isn't a trick but just someone finally trying to answer the mysteries and looking at the painting how Leonardo would.

In my discovery I also was able to align the backgrounds and see it in a totally new way. Da Vinci was able to write backwards so obviously he could paint backwards as well. Check out my site and please pass it along. I haven't been able to find anyone who's been interested yet! I just found this yahoo answers site and it's amazing and it's nice to know there are other people out there asking questions instead of just listening to everything they've been told!

So even tho this is a redundant question, i hope someone who can help me reads this and helps me contact people who can help, thanks!

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Answer 3

Leonardo da Vinci- a well-rounded man who lived from 1452 to 1519. He had talent in many occupations. He was an architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and scientist. Each talent benefited from another. Science and anatomy help him with his drawings and paintings. He is the painter who made the The Last Supper, and the Mona Lisa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
Mona Lisa on wikipedia...

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Leonardo da Vinci- a well-rounded man who lived from 1452 to 1519. He had talent in many occupations. He was an architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and scientist. Each talent benefited from another. Science and anatomy help him with his drawings and paintings. He is the painter who made the The Last Supper, and the Mona Lisa.

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Leonardo DA Vinci

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Leonardo Da Vinci.

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Leonardo da Vinci.

Have a look at 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.



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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.

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Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian artist who lived in the fifteenth century.