Want To Hear My Theory About The Mona Lisa?

Question

Few people know that Lisa and Leonardo were lovers at the time that the now famous portrait was painted. Or that the original title of the painting was ‘Moaning Lisa.’ That famous smile could have only come from the afterglow of great sex.

The title had to be changed because the Catholic Church frowned upon such displays of passion.

It's a joke, folks! It's a wordplay joke, replacing the word Mona with Moaning. Why are so many artists so damn serious about everything?

Answer 1

Groan...nice attempt at a theory. I can only hope you were trying to be funny.
For the record the name "Mona Lisa" is a purely english attributed one, in Italian the work is known as "La Gioconda" ("La Joconde" in French) and as Leonardo was Italian and lived/died in France at the end of his life well, there goes your theory about the word play.

As others have pointed out Leonardo was a homosexual and the catholic church knew about it but let it slide in his case as in Michelangelo's and Carravaggio's because they were such great artists.

For the record idiotic book like Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" have spawned tons of equally idiotic theories which I find annoying seeing as Art History is fully interesting enough without having to be sensationalized into a mystery. Art History is a different sort of mystery, a more lucid one if you will, that has nothing to do with cults and lovers and moaning lisas.

For the record also might I simply point out that the only reason the Mona Lisa is so famous is that it was stolen in 1911. It vanished without anyone realizing it and was missing for two years at which point Mona Lisa mania errupted, all this information about Leonardo surfaced and he was celebrated as a genius and therefore a cult like mystery developped around the painting.

Answer 2

Thank you.

This is probably the most rational and lucid theory I have read on the "Mona Lisa" in many a long year.

Certainly more plausible than that shite Dan Brown came up with.

Answer 3

maximum of his photos have a similar proportions - it really is why you may do this evaluation. The Mona Lisa became a commissioned portrait of a particular individual, no longer a self portrait. Leonardo became many stuff, yet never a transvestite.

Answer 4

Nice try. Reports about Leonardo's life, and his journals all suggest that he was homosexual.
The Catholic Church wouldn't have cared about the painting because it wasn't commissioned by anyone, and has no religious meaning. It rode around with the artist for years and years while he continually worked on it.

Answer 5

Doc did not say what gender Mona was

Answer 6

That's not true, but a good try at a theory.