What is the quality of monalisa painting
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Mona Lisa is indisputably the most famous piece of art in history and even today. There are various factors contributing to this fame:
The genius of the artist
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the penultimate artists of the Renaissance period. The artist himself have been very famous and widely studied throughout centuries. He dedicated a long period of his life to this painting—almost 15 years from 1503–04 when he took up the project until his death in 1519. He also used a special painting technique called ‘sfumato’ that became very popular for research purposes but could not be copied.
Optical Illusion
Centuries before the idea of Photoshop was yet to come into existence, when the term ‘optical illusion’ wasn’t even coined, Vinci created one (using his sfumato technique).
Mona Lisa is famous for an optical illusion aka ‘the mysterious smile’. The illusion is caused due to peripheral vision as the focus of the viewer shifts from the eyes of the portrait to the lips of the portrait. When you look at the eyes of the portrait, Mona Lisa appears to be smiling whereas when you shift your gaze to her lips, the smile disappears. This happens because of the shadow scheme of the face created by the sfumato technique.
This is not it. There is one more optical illusion which is apparently less talked about. Mona Lisa turns her face!!!
You must have heard people say that they find Mona Lisa creepy. Well, this might be the precise reason why. The background of the portrait to the left of the main figure and to the right of the main figure are not the same. They follow the same color scheme and appear to be a single landscape; but the landscape to the left is closer than the landscape painted on the right, and the face lies right in the middle of the two. Thus, as your gaze goes horizontally over entire composition, Mona Lisa seems to turn her face for a fraction of second.
Spicy Controversies
There are many controversial theories and stories related to Mona Lisa; most of them are based around the relationship between Vinci and the sitter in the painting.
Most popular one is that Vinci had a love affair with the sitter of the painting. (I think that this theory originates out of the fact that Vinci never delivered the portrait to the gentleman who had commissioned the work. It was this gentleman’s wife that has been widely testified as the sitter in the portrait. There can be other reasons why the portrait was never delivered to him.)
Studies have discovered that the face of Mona Lisa is exactly like Vinci’s self-poirtrait made in 1512. Some believe Mona Lisa to be the feminine self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Though it has not been figured out why Vinci might have produced a feminine self-portrait.
Scientists have also uncovered the original painting beneath the present Mona Lisa which is hidden beneath several layers of paint and varnish. This has aroused new curiosities about the painting.
Historical Context
Mona Lisa offers scope for topical studies and analysis because it corresponds to a lot of issues that marked the Renaissance (for example Renaissance Humanism, ambiguities related to gender, experimentation, etc.). This is why the painting have been the subject of a lot of historical studies and researches.
Scandalous Past
Last but definitely not the least; despite being an interesting piece of work, what made Mona Lisa so famous throughout the world was its theft.
Mona Lisa: The theft that created a legend
After its theft in 1911, Mona Lisa featured the front pages of international dailies day after day which made the painting known to even those who were least interested in art.
Not only was Mona Lisa a really significant piece of art and Renaissance history, the theft incident became famous because the police could not find any leads in the case and people belonging to the fine arts industry—artists as well as critics were under speculations. Artist Pablo Picasso was tried but later exonerated.
The genius of the artist
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the penultimate artists of the Renaissance period. The artist himself have been very famous and widely studied throughout centuries. He dedicated a long period of his life to this painting—almost 15 years from 1503–04 when he took up the project until his death in 1519. He also used a special painting technique called ‘sfumato’ that became very popular for research purposes but could not be copied.
Optical Illusion
Centuries before the idea of Photoshop was yet to come into existence, when the term ‘optical illusion’ wasn’t even coined, Vinci created one (using his sfumato technique).
Mona Lisa is famous for an optical illusion aka ‘the mysterious smile’. The illusion is caused due to peripheral vision as the focus of the viewer shifts from the eyes of the portrait to the lips of the portrait. When you look at the eyes of the portrait, Mona Lisa appears to be smiling whereas when you shift your gaze to her lips, the smile disappears. This happens because of the shadow scheme of the face created by the sfumato technique.
This is not it. There is one more optical illusion which is apparently less talked about. Mona Lisa turns her face!!!
You must have heard people say that they find Mona Lisa creepy. Well, this might be the precise reason why. The background of the portrait to the left of the main figure and to the right of the main figure are not the same. They follow the same color scheme and appear to be a single landscape; but the landscape to the left is closer than the landscape painted on the right, and the face lies right in the middle of the two. Thus, as your gaze goes horizontally over entire composition, Mona Lisa seems to turn her face for a fraction of second.
Spicy Controversies
There are many controversial theories and stories related to Mona Lisa; most of them are based around the relationship between Vinci and the sitter in the painting.
Most popular one is that Vinci had a love affair with the sitter of the painting. (I think that this theory originates out of the fact that Vinci never delivered the portrait to the gentleman who had commissioned the work. It was this gentleman’s wife that has been widely testified as the sitter in the portrait. There can be other reasons why the portrait was never delivered to him.)
Studies have discovered that the face of Mona Lisa is exactly like Vinci’s self-poirtrait made in 1512. Some believe Mona Lisa to be the feminine self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Though it has not been figured out why Vinci might have produced a feminine self-portrait.
Scientists have also uncovered the original painting beneath the present Mona Lisa which is hidden beneath several layers of paint and varnish. This has aroused new curiosities about the painting.
Historical Context
Mona Lisa offers scope for topical studies and analysis because it corresponds to a lot of issues that marked the Renaissance (for example Renaissance Humanism, ambiguities related to gender, experimentation, etc.). This is why the painting have been the subject of a lot of historical studies and researches.
Scandalous Past
Last but definitely not the least; despite being an interesting piece of work, what made Mona Lisa so famous throughout the world was its theft.
Mona Lisa: The theft that created a legend
After its theft in 1911, Mona Lisa featured the front pages of international dailies day after day which made the painting known to even those who were least interested in art.
Not only was Mona Lisa a really significant piece of art and Renaissance history, the theft incident became famous because the police could not find any leads in the case and people belonging to the fine arts industry—artists as well as critics were under speculations. Artist Pablo Picasso was tried but later exonerated.
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Indeed, the Mona Lisa is a very realistic portrait. The subject's softly sculptural face shows Leonardo's skillful handling of sfumato, an artistic technique that uses subtle gradations of light and shadow to model form, and shows his understanding of the skull beneath the skin.
Artists: Leonardo da Vinci
Genres: Portrait
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