questions about Mona lisa
-who made the painting of Mona Lisa?
-when did the artist started to make the painting?
- when did the artist finished to make Mona Lisa?
- where is the painting kept now?
please answer these...
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Answer:
don't know
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It all began with a cartoon sketched by Leonardo in 1499 during a stay in Mantua, where he was invited by Isabella d’Este and where he made the sketch, which now hangs in Louvre in Paris. In the following years the princess herself and several others repeatedly wrote letters to the artist asking for a proper painting “in colour”. Apparently nothing came of this except a sighting in 1517 in Blois of a painting of a woman from Lombardy. Until now, however, almost all art historians and scholars have believed that this was the later so famous Mona Lisa.
Three years ago the “new” painting surfaced from a Swiss vault in the Turgi in the canton of Aargau, where it had been kept by a hitherto unnamed family since the beginning of the 20th century. The reason was a request from the unknown owners to have the painting studied and perhaps identified.
Recently a letter written by Carlo Pedretti, the former director of the Armand Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies at the University of California, to the family was leaked. According to the Italian Newspaper, Corriere de la Sera, he concludes in the letter that the painting without doubt is a long lost painting by da Vinci. Not only are the pigments identical to those used by the master, a c4 dating confirms the age of the painting; further the priming of the canvas was prepared according to the recipe written by Leonardo himself. However in an interview to the Italian Newspaper he has voiced concern that they still do not know exactly, which parts were painted by students and which by the master himself.
The art world is humming: Apparently it is believed the portrait of Isabelle d’Este by Leonardo da Vinci was painted earlier than that of Mona Lisa. This might shatter the chronology of the understanding of his artistic works and maybe even change the chronology of other paintings from his hand.Isabella d’Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters that they exchanged over the course of about six years. Beginning in late 1499, Leonardo spent several months in Mantua, where he met Isabella and produced a finished portrait drawing of her. In the years that followed, the marchioness wrote to the artist to ask him to undertake other paintings and projects. Though little came of these requests, da Vinci did produce a drawing of some classical hard-stone vases to assist her search for collectible antiques and also started work on a painting of Christ as a twelve-year-old boy at her request.
The story of their relationship is explored in depth for the first time in Isabella and Leonardo. This illuminating story raises interesting and important questions about relationships between artists and patrons, and about women as art patrons at the beginning of the 16th century.