Product Code: Leo018
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"Mona
Lisa" (c. 1503-04)
Author: Leonardo da
Vinci (1452-1519)
Musée du Louvre,
Paris
The
most dazzlingly poetic pictures ever created - Leonardo's three
great portraits of women. This
quality is at its
most enigmatic in the Mona
Lisa's (Set I, LEO018) inward amusement,
at its most appealing in the Lady
with an Ermine’s (Set I, Code LEO010) gentle submissiveness,
and at its most confrontational in Ginevra
de' Benci's (Set I, Code: LEO004) self-absorption.
It has that haunting, almost unearthly beauty peculiar to Leonardo.
Why
"Mona Lisa" is so famous?
The
most dazzlingly poetic pictures ever created
- Leonardo's
three great portraits of women
all
have a secret wistfulness.
The
Mona Lisa (Louvre, Paris), also known as La
Gioconda, is a portrait of the wife of Francesco del
Giocondo, painted by Leonardo between 1503 and 1505.
Leonardo
himself loved the portrait, so much so that he always carried it with him
until eventually in France it was sold to François I, either by Leonardo
or by Melzi.
From
the beginning it was greatly admired, and it came to be considered the
prototype of the Renaissance portrait.
It
became even more famous in 1911, when it was stolen from the Salon Carré
in the Louvre, being rediscovered in a hotel in Florence two years
later.
On
the perfect beauty of a woman', by the 16th-century writer
Firenzuola, we
learn that the slight opening of the lips at the corners of the mouth was
considered in that period a sign of elegance. Thus Mona Lisa has that
slight smile which enters into the gentle, delicate atmosphere pervading
the whole painting.
To
achieve this effect, Leonardo uses the sfumato technique, a gradual
dissolving of the forms themselves, continuous interaction between light
and shade and an uncertain sense of the time of day.
GoldArt
brings Mona Lisa into your private life, gaze at her smile, tell her all
your secrets, she will be your best friend. She will response to you every
time you look at her.
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