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The Mona Lisa [a] is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [4] [5] it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world."
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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 ...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, National Gallery of Art, 8 January 1963 - 3 February 1963 ; The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7 February 1963 - 4 March 1963 ; Mona Lisa Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum, 20 April 1974 - 10 June 1974 ; References: A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: from the Renaissance to the Present ...
Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile draws millions of viewers from across the world, all eager to see the art world's most famous female face. But is it?
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]
how the Mona Lisa might originally have looked like, 1.448 x 2.164 pixels Wikipedia This is a featured picture on the Azerbaijani language Wikipedia ( Seçilmiş şəkillər ) and is considered one of the finest images.
File:Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg licensed with PD-Art, PD-old-100, PD-retouched-user 2011-08-18T17:33:23Z Dcoetzee 7479x11146 (94310471 Bytes) Reverted to version as of 05:56, 8 June 2011: inaccurate representation of present colours of Mona Lisa, I have thorough documentation of these colours, see talk page