what is the mystery of monalisa?

Question

did u notice that she wears a veil?

Answer 1

Have a look at 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 2

Monalisa was the master-piece of Leonardo da Vincha.
The mistry is said to be the mile of the lady in the painting. The smile looks like a real one, as if a real person is smiling. Some see is as if the lady just gave then a smile.
There are controversies also. Some say that Monalisa, the wife of some big-short of that time, was pregnent at that time. Others say that this painting was not of a woman but a man was the model for it....this was related to the alligation of being homosexual that da Vinchi faced at those times.

Answer 3

I tink the monalisa is Leonardo Davinci

Answer 4

It did not initiate out as his face. although, he continued to artwork on the portray for 30 years (with out the unique kind) and used it as a promotional piece to reveal ability shoppers how properly he might want to paint. SO, after 30 years of fussing over it, it began searching more and more like Da Vinci because he became using himself for reference. John Cichowski M.F.A. huge apple Academy of artwork

Answer 5

Mona Lisa, the best painting by Da vinci is famous due to the unique smile. Some say it is a self portrait of the artist,some say the lady was pregnant when he painted her. If you dont know the lady in the painting does'nt have eyebrows. Again some say it was fashion and others say da vince did'nt want it to be perfect

Answer 6

monalisa is not femail. i mean the artist saw his reflection in the mirror and drew it. he purposely removed the eyebrows to make it look like femail. u cant identify a person if it is he or she at first sight, in this way....... the artist is well known and famous.......... i forgot his name.....sorry...... this is all hear say things ok, dont blindly follow.............

Answer 7

one half of the face looks happy ..the other looks sad...some think its a self portrait while theres debate wether its a man or a woman....the title alone makes u wonder...di vinci was also rumored to be bisexual..maybe thats what its about...half man half woman....i also heard there is a small speck of gray paint in the sky people belive is supposed to be a ufo

Answer 8

well i kno is that she is neither smiling nor frowning also that she has no eyebrows...if u put Da Vinci's self protrait up next to Mona Lisa's they are identical

Answer 9

The only one I know is that she is smiling cause she is pregnant.

Answer 10

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