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Konody observed of the Isleworth subject that "[t]he head is inclined at a different angle". [29] Physicist John F. Asmus, who had previously examined the Mona Lisa in the Louvre and investigated other works by Leonardo, published a computer image processing study in 1988 concluding that the brush strokes of the face in the painting were performed by the same artist responsible for the brush ...
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.
A version of the Mona Lisa known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa was first bought by an English nobleman in 1778 and was rediscovered in 1913 by Hugh Blaker, an art connoisseur. The painting was presented to the media in 2012 by the Mona Lisa Foundation. [174] It is a painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Instrumental in the controversial authentication of Salvator Mundi to Leonardo, Kemp has been vocal on attributions to Leonardo, including support of La Bella Principessa and opposition to the Isleworth Mona Lisa. From 1995 to 2008 he was professor of art history at the University of Oxford and has continued since then as an emeritus professor.
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 ...
In 2004 Feldman was mandated by Elizabeth Meyer to make research, scientific and physical examinations of her painting which had been known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa. In 2010, he formed, together with Markus Frey, Daniel Kohler and others, The Mona Lisa Foundation, a non-profit organisation, which absorbed decades of previous research ...
John Fredrich Asmus (January 20, 1937 – March 31, 2024) [1] was a research physicist who focused his work on the use of scientific techniques in art conservation.As of 2020, he taught at the Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Science at the University of California, San Diego, where he began working in 1974.
The Mona Lisa Myth is a multimedia project consisting of a 2013 book and a 2014 documentary film, produced in tandem by Renaissance scholar and art historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts, [2] with physician and art collector Christopher Heath Brown as co-author of the book and as a producer of the documentary, the latter with narration by Morgan Freeman.