CAN ANYBODY TELL ME ABOUT DA VINCI'S PAINTING (monolisa)? pls.....?

Answer 1

try this go to the question field and write mona lisa and see what comes out I got 274 results.

Answer 2

check out "the day the mona lisa was stolen."
The mona lisa was actually stolen at one time and several copies were hand painted. There acuracy was so questionable that experts had to prove the real mona lisa from the fakes. It was one of the greatest art scandals in art history...As too whom the mona lisa is there have been arguments all through history as to who the model was and what the models relationship to da vinci was. At one time there was speculation that it was a male model or even a self portrait. It's one of the biggest puzzles unsolved in art history. The Mona lisa we see was not the only painting done that da vinci called the mona lisa. There were several other studies. We still don't know why da vinci chose this particular painting as the final piece. And the biggest question has always been if she's really smiling or not. If you take out a ruler and lay it on top of her mouth she isn't smiling. The background creates the illusion of the smile. What's also interesting about the mona lisa is the small size of the painting.....

Answer 3

Well here are some general thoughts. First off, why the odd smile? It is theorised the model had terrible teeth, so the close lip smile was offered. In fact few paintings of that era showed dentition, possibly for this very reason,
also possibly because it's hard to paint teeth...
though one would think that not a challenge for a technician like da Vinci.

To me the most interesting feature of the painting is the background. A very dark and surreal place is behind her, and oddly, the left side of the landscape does not match the right side. Look closely and you'll see what I mean.
There is a river, but it does not continue behind her. No such landscape was visible from da Vinci's workplace. In fact the landscape reminds one of the paintings of Breugal, almost a hellscape.

It has been theorised that this odd little trick was the center of the work for Leonardo, and that the mysterious smile is a suggestion that the viewer study what is behind her, like a person guarding a secret.

It is a tiny painting.

Answer 4

Hey GHANA,

The Mona Lisa is a featured painting in the Louvre and the book Davinci Code. Note that Da Vinci is where Leonardo is from, so, most artists will call him Leonardo.

Reams have been written about this small masterpiece by Leonardo, and the gentle woman who is its subject has been adapted in turn as an aesthetic, philosophical and advertising symbol, entering eventually into the irreverent parodies of the Dada and Surrealist artists. The history of the panel has been much discussed, although it remains in part uncertain. According to Vasari, the subject is a young Florentine woman, Monna (or Mona) Lisa, who in 1495 married the well-known figure, Francesco del Giocondo, and thus came to be known as ``La Gioconda''. The work should probably be dated during Leonardo's second Florentine period, that is between 1503 and 1505. Leonardo himself loved the portrait, so much so that he always carried it with him until eventually in France it was sold to François I, either by Leonardo or by Melzi. ... first web site

Answer 5

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

Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo

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 6

one of the most beautiful paintings by Da Vinci along with the "The garden of earthly delights" by bosch

Answer 7

This picture uses sfumato which is a blending of shades to trick the eye. This the secret of the smile. It's like drawing in charcoal, without using definite lines.

Answer 8

It's in the Louvre.

Answer 9

she can move her eyes in the picture