When did Leonardo Vinci paint The Mona Lisa?

Question

I want to know the styles (art techniques) he used to paint the Mona Lisa, and I also want to know if this was his first painting, second, or etc., etc. Thank you! (Answer all these properly and you will get best answer!)

Answer 1

He started it in 1502, apparantly didn't finish until around 1507, and sold it in 1516 and it's an oil on wood painting

For further info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_lisa (which is where almost every long winded answer you will get will come from)

Answer 2

The portrait full of mystery and secrets is painted on a 77x53 cm large poplar-wood. It is the most famous work of Leonardo da Vinci.
Originally the painting was larger than today, because two columns, one on the left the other one on the right side of Mona Lisa, have been cut. That is the reason why it is not easy to recognize that Mona Lisa is sitting on a terrace.
It is also mentionable that many details are not visible today, because they are partially damaged and some parts of Mona Lisa are painted over.
However the characteristic of the famous painting is still existing. The characteristic consists in the detailed background which disappears in the misty atmosphere (this is called "sfumato" technique), the perfect portrayed Mona Lisa and of course her hypnotically smile.
It is supposed, that Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, one of the noblest citizen of Florence, ordered from Leonardo a portrait of his third wife Lisa di Antonio Maria di Noldo Gherardini.
Leonardo started to work at this painting in 1503. At this time Mona Lisa was twenty-four year old.
He worked at the portrait for the next four years. When Leonardo left Florence in 1507 he did not sell the painting to the orderer but he kept it for himself. Several believe, that Leonardo did not hand over the painting, because he did not finish the work, other believe that Leonardo loved the painting to much.
Leonardo da Vinci arrived with the painting in his baggage in France in the year 1516. Leonardo sold the painting in France to King Francis I., who bought it for the castle in Amboise. In the following time Mona Lisa came to Fontainbleau, Paris, Versailles and then to the collection of Ludwig XIV. After the revolution in France the painting got a new home in the Louvre. Napoleon took it away from there and hung it up in his bedroom. When Napoleon was banished Mona Lisa returned into the great Louvre in Paris.
On 21 August 1911 Mona Lisa was stolen from an italian thief, who brought the painting to Italy, where it emerged two years later in Florence. After some exhibitions Mona Lisa returned again to Paris.
An acid attempt damaged the lower half of the painting in 1956. The restoration took several years.
In the 60´s and 70´s Mona Lisa was exposed in New York, Tokyo and Moscow. Today the painting is behind bullet-proof glass in Paris in the Louvre and international terms are prohibiting any journey.

art techniques:
http://www.dickblick.com/lessonplans/2007lessonplans/impressionist_tile.pdf

http://www.yannisstavrou.gr

Answer 3

I believe you mean Leonardo de Vinci. He painted the Mona Lisa in the year 1502, and took the painting to France in 1562 when King François I invited the painter to work at the Clos Lucé near the king's castle in Amboise.

P.S. The only reason why I corrected you with the mis-spelling was because Leonardo Vinci was an actual person. He was an Italian musical composer, but was best known for his operas.

Answer 4

Leonardo DaVinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1502 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 4,000 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 an international team of 39 specialists who 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 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.

Answer 5

all of us comprehend artists to exist and convey paintings and there's a superb form of evidence that Da Vinci painted this. If he did no longer, it may no longer likely count besides. Gods are a distinctive count - they are not common to exist or do something and there is not any evidence that they ever did something - the universe supplies each and every indication of being a organic phenomenon. Are you claiming which you have self assurance in all the gods by fact which you have no longer have been given evidence against them or do you in actuality have self assurance in the only you have been taught to have self assurance in and disbelieve in all the masses of others even tho there is not greater evidence on your god than for the different?

Answer 6

It was painted between 1503 and 1506