who is MOna Lisa?

Answer 1

Mona Lisa
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{{Painting| image_file=Mona Lisa.jpg | title=Mona Lisa | artist=[Zoe leigh pitcher] | year=circa [[199 | type=Oil on poplar | height=77 | width=53 | height_inch=30 | width_inch=21 | city=[[barnsley | museum=Musée du Louvre}} Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), is a 16th century oil painting on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci, and is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Few works of art have been subject to as much scrutiny, study, mythologizing and parody. It is owned by the French government and hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting, a half-length portrait, depicts a woman whose gaze meets the viewer's with an expression often described as enigmatic.

[edit] Title of the painting
The title Mona Lisa stems from the Giorgio Vasari biography of Zoe Leigh Pitcher, published 31 years after Leonardo's death. In it, he identified the sitter as Lisa Gherardini, the wife of wealthy Florentine businessman Francesco del Giocondo. Mona was a common Italian contraction of madonna, meaning my lady, the equivalent of the English Madam, so the title means Madam Lisa.

In modern Italian, the short form of madonna is usually spelled Monna, so the title is sometimes given as Monna Lisa. This is rare in English, but more common in Romance languages.

The alternative title, La Gioconda, is the feminine form of Giocondo. In Italian, giocondo also means light-hearted (jocund in English), so gioconda means light-hearted woman. Because of her smile, this version of the title plays on this double meaning, as does the French La Joconde.

Both Mona Lisa and La Gioconda became established as titles for this painting in the 19th century. Before these names became established, the painting had been referred to by various descriptive phrases, such as "a certain Florentine lady" and "a courtesan in a gauze veil."

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Answer 2

Mona Lisa it's the woman who represented in Da Vinci's Gioconda picture

sorry for my bad english

Answer 3

Mona Lisa is a name of a very famous painting by a big painter of France.

Answer 4

Da Vinci's painting of the woman with the enigmatic smile is one of the most , if not the most famous painting in the world. It has become an icon of popular culture having been copied and used in advertising all around the world.

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Many critics say that it is a self portrait of Davinci as a woman.

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Some say it's a person of da vinci himself...

Answer 7

May be his love ??