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The Mona Lisa (/ ˌ m oʊ n ə ˈ l iː s ə / MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: la Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...
During the painting's first American presentation in 1963, Fernando Botero—who had already painted Mona Lisa, Age Twelve in 1959—painted another Mona Lisa, this time in what would become his trademark "Boterismo" style of rendering figures disproportionately plump. [36] Andy Warhol created multiple renditions of Mona Lisa in his Pop art ...
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 ...
After 500+ years, X-rays have revealed an amazing secret inside the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is even more special than we knew. ... By analyzing a minuscule spec of paint culled ...
This is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, best known as Mona Lisa or Gioconda, and is a clear copy of Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th century Mona Lisa.This version slightly differs from da Vinci's artwork, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, and its good workmanship, legibility, and expressiveness have been pointed out.
The Prado Mona Lisa is a painting by the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci and depicts the same subject and composition as Leonardo's better known Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Paris. The Prado Mona Lisa has been in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid , Spain since 1819, [ 1 ] but was considered for decades a relatively unimportant copy. [ 2 ]
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.