'Mona Lisa a famous painting by DA vinci is a self portrait of himself in disguise'-is this true?

Answer 1

That's what some people say but they haven't proved it. So, there is a 50% chance that it may be true.

Answer 2

It is very hard to give a definitive answer to this question. There are those who say that the Mona Lisa is a Da Vinci self portrait, and there are striking resemblances between the Mona Lisa and Da Vinci (from portraits of him) regarding symmetry and facial features. However, there are other references to the actual person having lived. So the definitive answer is maybe. I think it is a litte of both. Da Vinci did put some of his features of himself into a painting of a female that actually existed and had a natural resemblance to him.

Answer 3

There are so many theories, and none of them are conclusively right or wrong. It is very likely that DaVinci could have given a reflection of himself in the Mona Lisa. Some interpret that the focus of the painting isn't even the Mona Lisa herself- but the landscape around her. See, DaVinci was obsessed with earth, and nature, and its power. Some art historians believe she isn't smiling in the painting because her facial expressions are meant to mimic the ground behind her, as if the hills and trees and rivers are her own flowing veins, cheekbones and eyes.
Other artists of the time were also thought to have painted self portraits inside their masterpieces, too, so it's not simply a DaVinci phenomenon-
Michelangelo Buonarroti appears in his own depiction of the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Italy- He shows himself as the shed skin of St. Bartholemew.

Answer 4

Have a look at what the experts at The Louvre say rather than a fiction writer and a load of conspiracy theorists.

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.

Answer 5

It has been identified that the model was the wife of socially prominent Francesco del Giocondo. It is known that del Giocondo, a wealthy silk merchant of Florence and a prominent government figure, lived. Until recently, little was known about his wife, Lisa Gherardini, except that she was born in 1479 and raised at the family's Villa Vignamaggio in Tuscany, and that she married del Giocondo in 1495.

However in 2004 the Italian scholar Giuseppe Pallanti published Monna Lisa, Mulier Ingenua (literally '"Mona Lisa: Real Woman", published in English under the title Mona Lisa Revealed: The True Identity of Leonardo's Model). The book gathered archival evidence in support of the traditional identification of the model as Lisa Gherardini. According to Pallanti the evidence suggests that Leonardo's father was a friend of Lisa's husband. "The portrait of Mona Lisa, done when Lisa Gherardini was aged about 24, was probably commissioned by Leonardo's father himself for his friends as he is known to have done on at least one other occasion." Pallanti discovered that Lisa and Francesco had five children and that she outlived her husband. She lived at least into her 60s, though no record of her death was located. Most scholars now agree that she was indeed the model.

Answer 6

The subject is a young Florentine woman, Monna (or Mona) Lisa, who in 1495 married the well-known figure, Francesco del Giocondo.

Answer 7

Who exchange into She? She is considered Lisa Gherardini, born Tuesday, June fifteenth 1479. She married Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, a wealthy Florentine service provider, whilst she exchange into sixteen. on the time of the portray she exchange into 24 and had 2 sons. What different names does she bypass with the aid of? Monna Lisa exchange into her unique call. Monna is a contraction for Madonna, Mia Donna (Madam or My lady). It grew to alter into Mona Lisa, in English, with the aid of a spelling blunders. She is l. a. Joconde in French, l. a. Gioconda in Italian, "the merry one," concerning the smile yet additionally in all risk a play on her call, Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo. Who painted her? Leonardo da Vinci- (1452-1519) He exchange into the illegitimate son of a notary from the small Tuscan village of Vinci close to Florence. Very handsome with a marvelous physique, he even possessed an superb making a track voice. Artist, scientist, actuality seeker, anatomist, astronomer, engineer, inventor and courtier, a real Renaissance guy. How long did it take him to color it? It exchange into believed to have been painted from 1503 to 1506, 4 years. How previous is the portray? In 2003-2006, we have fun the 5 hundredth anniversary of the portray. the place is the signature? The panel is unsigned and undated. the place does it draw close? It took 4 years, in basic terms approximately the comparable length of time it took Leonardo to color her, yet now Mona Lisa has a $7.5 million greenback room of her own on the Louvre in Paris, France. It now hangs in the Salle de Etats. It provides the tens of millions who come to work out the portray extra area and a extra effectual view. The inventory variety for the portray is # 779.

Answer 8

Nope, although there is debat as to whether or not it is a man or woman who posed for the painting b/c women were not permitted to sit for portraits at that time or something like that. :)

Answer 9

I've actually seen the real thing in the Louvre--and no way is it a self portrait. I've seen some copies of it and they are so fake.-the smile is not right in these copies.

Answer 10

nobody but Da Vinci can answer this for you. There are thousands of theory's on this mysterious masterpiece.

Answer 11

Yeah