What do you know about the world's most famous painting?

Question

Mona Lisa, that is...

Answer 1

no matter which way you look at it...it's looking at you. painted be Leonardo de Vinci

Answer 2

The Mona Lisa. The artist drew a famous smile on the subject's face .[ lady who artist painted ] The smile is so well captured , it is almost as if a photographer took it. Nat King Cole also immortalised the Mona Lisa painting. Mona Lisa Mona Lisa men have .... you are the lady with the mystic smile ... many dreams have been brought to your door-step ...they lie there... do you smile to tempt a lover Mona Lisa ? Mona Lisa Mona Lisa....
[B] The Sleeping Gypsy is also a very famous painting.

Answer 3

The Mona Lisa is a painting by a genius named Leonardo DaVinci. He is a master in perspective and anatomy. The Mona Lisa is not a self portrait. That is ridiculous because at the time he made the painting he was 7 years from death about 54, the girl in the painting is much younger. It was of a woman who's husband wanted Leonardo to make a painting of his wife. Leonardo took 3 years of his wife's time to get her to model for him. It is so famous because no one smiled in paintings at the time. Also Leonardo was obsessed with it. At this point of his life he had little friends and this woman saw him for who he really was. He loved her in a non sexual way. Leonardo was homosexual. He loved the painting because it reminded him of her. He was so obsessed with it that after the three years he had her model for it. He worked four more years until his death. We know it's not completed because the aerial perspective in the sky is not right and the backgrounds do not coincide, so we think he was still working on that. The painting embodies Leonardo's passion for art and his genius. The hands were studied by Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel, along with various other artists. It now resides in France and could survive a nuclear bomb.
It is an amazing painting.

Answer 4

The Mona Lisa was painted by Leornado Da Vinci. It is currently situated in the Louvre behind bullet proof glass and always has a huge crowd around it.
She has a mysterious smile and was apparently a woman Da Vinci liked. No one knows who the woman is.
The picture appeared in the Da Vinci code with Tom Hanks in.
In the 1900s the picture was stolen but luckily recovered.
In the louvre the picture stands opposite a picture of Jesus at the last supper which is huge.
The mona Lisa painting though is fairly small in real life though.

Answer 5

The Mona Lisa is in fact called "The Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo" or, simply "La Giaconda," and was painted with oil on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci in Florence between 1503 and 1506. It was purchased by King Francois I of France in 1518 and now hangs in the Louvre. The first Italian half-length portrait features the famous and beguiling, if not-exactly-telling, smile. Lillian Schwarz argues that Mona Lisa is a self-portrait of a cross-dressing da Vinci, as the image of her face and da Vinci's self-portrait appear to match. After two attacks on the painting - by rock and acid - in the early 1960s, the painting has been housed behind bullet-proof glass. The painting (and many of its aspects, such as the smile, the background, the posture of the model) have been copied and parodied for five centuries.

Answer 6

It is very difficult to observe it from today's perspective. Our lives are dominated by stress, ambition and the life back then was so different. Da Vinci was a genius and a very complex man. Hundreds of scholars have analyzed his paintings but beyond any objective study I guess the Mona Lisa is simply mysterious, her face and expression are unique and androgynous. Today artist paint in a day or two most of the times and maybe Da Vinci painted one a year or so.... this woudn't be possible today for a professional painter. Da Vinci's career was possible due to rich patrons and Popes.

Answer 7

It is the most reproduced piece of art in all of the world.
From the beginning it was greatly admired and much copied, and it came to be considered the prototype of the Renaissance portrait. It became even more famous in 1911, when it was stolen from the Salon Carré in the Louvre, being rediscovered in a hotel in Florence two years later.

In the essay ``On the perfect beauty of a woman'', by the 16th-century writer Firenzuola, we learn that the slight opening of the lips at the corners of the mouth was considered in that period a sign of elegance.

Leonardo himself loved the portrait, so much so that he always carried it with him until eventually in France it was sold.

Answer 8

Well Mona Lisa is butt-ugly, she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, it has been rumored that she is a female version of da Vinci, she is famous because of her smirk

Answer 9

It is speculated that the woman is Leonardo himself, only in drag (that is why she has huge hands.) Her hands are not dainty at all, very masculine and worker like. Also, the background is hell-ish. That was a very strange setting for a portrait of a women who would appear to the everyday person to be the wife of a merchant or other wealthy figure.

Answer 10

Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), is a 16th century oil painting on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings 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.

The title Mona Lisa stems from the Giorgio Vasari biography of Leonardo da Vinci, 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."

Leonardo began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 and, according to Vasari, completed it in four years.

Leonardo took the painting from Italy to France in 1516 when King François I invited the painter to work at the Clos Lucé near the king's castle in Amboise. The King bought the painting for 4,0000 écus and kept it at Fontainebleau, where it remained until moved by Louis XIV.

It has for a long time been argued that after Leonardo's death the painting was cut down by having part of the panel at both sides removed. Early copies depict columns on both sides of the figure. Only the edges of the bases can be seen in the original.[1] However, some art historians, such as Martin Kemp, now argue that the painting has not been altered, and that the columns depicted in the copies were added by the copyists. The latter view was bolstered during 2004 and 2005 when an international team of 39 specialists undertook the most thorough scientific examination of the Mona Lisa yet undertaken. Beneath the frame (the current one was fitted to the Mona Lisa in 1906) there was discovered a "reserve" around all 4 edges of the panel. A reserve is an area of bare wood surrounding the gessoed and painted portion of the panel. That this is a genuine reserve, and not the result of removal of the gesso or paint is demonstrated by a raised edge still existing around the gesso, the result of build up from the edge of brush strokes at the edge of the gesso area.

The reserve area, which was likely to have been as much as 20 mm originally appears to have been trimmed at some point probably to fit a frame (we know that the in the 1906 framing it was the frame itself which was trimmed, not the picture, so it must have been earlier), however at no point has any of Leonardo's actual paint been trimmed. Therefore the columns in early copies must be inventions of those artists, or copies of another (unknown) studio version of Mona Lisa. The round objects each side of the sill remain as mysterious as so much of this painting.

It has been suggested that Leonardo created more than one version of the painting. The owners of the version known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa claim that it is an original, though the great majority of art historians reject its authenticity. The same claim has been made for a version in the Vernon collection.[2] Another version, dating from c.1616 was given in c.1790 to Joshua Reynolds by the Duke of Leeds in exchange for a Reynolds self-portrait. Reynolds thought it to be the real painting and the French one a copy, which has now been disproved. It is, however, useful in that it was copied when the original's colours were far brighter than they are now, and so it gives some sense of the original's appearance 'as new'. It is held in the stores of the Dulwich Picture Gallery.[3] There are also copies of the image in which the figure appears nude. These have also led to speculation that they were copied from a lost Leonardo original depicting Lisa naked.[4]

Answer 11

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