The Mona Lisa

**People: Historian says da Vinci used man as main model for 'Mona Lisa By:Steve

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An Italian researcher says he has determined who the main model was for Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" painting and -- doncha know? -- it was a guy is a man.SO MONA LISA IS A MAN

The smile of mystery & who was the model for it...

Model was the wife of one of his friends

Mona Lisa's eyes do not follow you, they just seem to because Leonardo Da Vinci is a great artist. So do not freak out about it, because it is just like when on TV the people look straight at the camera.

A Florentine lady, probably Lisa Gherardini.

They show the mood and tone of the painting, and the way that da Vinci paints the mouth is an illusion whether she is smiling or not.

No he did not, for it is older than he is and he could not of afforded it.

No, the painting was not seriously damaged on that occasion. However, it is true that a strip has been taken off on each side, but this must have been done much earlier.

She is not actually laughing, just a smile. The meaning of her smile has been debated since the painting was done.

No one knows anything about the woman in the painting. Many art experts think it could have been a self portrait. He had the painting with him when he died and had carried it with him for many years.

No. There are no UFO's in the last supper.

Leonardo De Vinci was the greatest painter of his time and his work is revered today. He kept three paintings with him to his death. The Mona Lisa was one of them. Too precious to part with. It had the enigmatic smile of several of his works. The hands are another trademark. Shown as an expression of a persons demeanor and character. The "smile" perhaps the refection of the persons soul. His power of expressing so much detail with shadows is in evidence here. The Mona Lisa and "Our Lady of the Rocks" share that and an obscura background. Layers of lacquer painted over the back ground to give it depth. This small picture can never have a price put on it. It belongs to a world that needs this beauty. It is for all to see, not for one person to possess.

Vincenzo Peruggia's motive for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre was to return the painting to Italy because he hoped the Italian government would give him a reward. Peruggia wanted to return the painting to its native land because he believed that all the Italian art in the Louvre had been stolen by Napoleon -- including the Mona Lisa. Peruggia selected the Mona Lisa because she was small and easy to carry. Unfortunately for Peruggia, the Mona Lisa had not been stolen by Napoleon at all. It came to France with Leonardo da Vinci when he went there to work at the court of King Francis I. King Francis either purchased the Mona Lisa from da Vinci or from one of his heirs.

The painting is owned by the French government, reported to have hung in Napolean's bedroom for a while, since 1804 it has been in the Louvre, Paris, France. Estimates place the current value around $500 million.

Yes, The techniques used, such as sfumato and aerial perspective were both discoveries of renaissance and humanism and the background landscape we see on the Mona Lisa is a typical use of both. Furthermore, the knowledge of anatomy, dealing with the inner life of the painted person is also very popular in the time of the renaissance.

People sometimes buy aboriginal artwork for the remembrance of the past of aborignals or they just have the painting for no reason

Original Answer: People think the Mona Lisa is such a great painting because in the painting the woman's eyes are very mysterious. Where ever you stand they seem to follow you. People are facsinated by this which is why it is so good.

Rebuttal: There is nothing good about the Mona Lisa to make her stand out from all the other portraits that were created during the High Renaissance. The woman in the Mona Lisa portrait is a noblewoman, and her "mysterious smile" is nothing more than the way all noblewoman were portrayed. There was a decorous way the women had to present themselves and the half-smile is a smirk down to the lower classes, in essence saying that she is better than all the people below her in rank.

Also, the painting has been cut down over the years. One owner decided that the frame he already owned upon obtaining the painting was more important than the painting itself. The painting used to be twice the size that it is today and there were once columns on either side of the painting. If people think that this painting is such a mysterious painting, then they are only uneducated and buy into the hype around the painting. To say that you have seen the Mona Lisa is to make it seem to other uneducated people that you have seen something remarkable and worth writing home about. Instead of waiting for the hundreds of people that seem to constantly surround the Mona Lisa on a daily basis, take a look at some of the other paintings that are in the same gallery and that are unfortunately neglected by people who would rather see a famous noblewoman smirking at them.

I think that the meaning of the Mona Lisa was to create something that would get people pondering for years and years and years about what the meaning of the Mona Lisa is. Seriously. Leo Da Vinci NEEDED attention.

Leonardo Da Vinci painted The Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa's parent's names are Antonmaria Di Noldo and Lucrezia Del Caccia.

According to CNN.com, a Frenchman claims that the eyebrows (and eyelashes) were actually painted on the portrait. A camera of his own design magnified the painting 24x and revealed a single lash.

The Frenchman, Pascal Cotte, has done a virtual recreation of the original painting based on what his infrared camera shows. He says the eyebrows and lashes may have been destroyed by a too vigorous cleaning.

The Mona Lisa is an example of a "portrait".

Nature, his countryside, his home, science, nature, his parents, and birds.