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The Mona Lisa has survived for more than 500 years, and an international commission convened in 1952 noted that "the picture is in a remarkable state of preservation." [85] It has never been fully restored, [125] so the current condition is partly due to a variety of conservation treatments the painting has undergone. A detailed analysis in ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa — one of the most famous paintings in the world — is shrouded in mystery; from questions around the figures identity, to her puzzling, enigmatic expression.
An Italian historian believes he's solved one of the biggest mysteries of Leonardo's famous Mona Lisa painting: the location of the bridge in the backdrop.
Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre Museum The 16th-century portrait Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci, has been the subject of a considerable deal of speculation. Columns and trimming Early copy of the Mona Lisa at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, showing columns on either side of the subject It has for a long time been argued ...
A new study found a rare compound called plumbonacrite within the “Mona Lisa,” suggesting Leonardo da Vinci may have been the first to use a technique previously found in later paintings.
The theory that the Mona Lisa was a self-portrait by Leonardo was first proposed in 1987 by Lillian Schwartz, an artist and computer technician.Shwartz noted the similarities in the shapes of the facial features of the painting with those of the drawing popularly believed to be a self-portrait of Leonardo, and theorized that the Mona Lisa may have been a self-portrait in drag. [2]
The technique in this portrait and in the "Mona Lisa" is called "sfumato," in which da Vinci blended colors and shades to get gradual transitions between different shapes in each painting.
In the centuries after Lisa's life, the Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting. [2] In 2005, Lisa was identified as a subject for a da Vinci portrait around 1503, strongly reinforcing the traditional view of her as the model for Mona Lisa .